Autonomous flying taxis tested in New Zealand

[Becky]

Forget self-driving cars, Google founder Larry Page is skipping right ahead to flying taxis. His company, Kitty Hawk, has developed an electric-powered autonomous flying taxi that takes off like a helicopter and flies like an aircraft - it's like a cross between a drone and a small plane.

Since October, a mysterious flying object has been seen moving through the skies over the South Island of New Zealand. It looks like a cross between a small plane and a drone, with a series of small rotor blades along each wing that allow it to take off like a helicopter and then fly like a plane. To those on the ground, it has always been unclear whether there was a pilot aboard.

Well, it turns out that the airborne vehicle has been part of a series of “stealth” test flights by a company personally financed by Larry Page, the co-founder of Google and now the chief executive of Google’s parent, Alphabet.

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[nivrip]

Great way of avoiding the traffic jams.

 

[TriplexDread]

More accidents and hacking waiting to happen