If companies like Boeing get their way, a day is coming soon when we won’t have to resign ourselves anymore to the frustration of congested roadways and gridlocked city streets once flying taxis become a real thing.
One of the next battlegrounds for traditional aviation companies, tech firms and start-ups is the race to develop the first working self-flying air taxis — helicopter-like vehicles designed to carry people a short distance and which open up all kinds of possibilities especially for ridesharing companies like Uber, which wants to build a flying taxi service called Uber Air.
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Boeing just got one step closer to making its autonomous flying taxi a reality originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 20:08:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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