The race to build a flying electric taxi

, says that flying taxi services only need to be safer than driving a car, perhaps twice as safe.Another question that has not really been answered is how eVTOL aircraft will perform in bad weather.

Yet a taxi service that has to shut down on a windy day would not be much use in many places in the world.Air traffic control systems already monitor the activities of helicopters over cities and experts says those systems could probably cope with hundreds more eVTOL aircraft. But if eVTOL is going to become a mass market transport system, with thousands of aircraft, then new airspace management systems will have to be put in place.Avionics expert Steve Wright says simplicity is the big advantage of electric aircraftThose aircraft themselves will need be able to sense what is going on around them and identify other aircraft.

"There's going to be a slow build up of traffic over time and that will allow us to prove these systems work properly."The business model of a flying taxi service is yet to be worked out. But it is likely that they will serve short, well-defined routes in and out of cities.Uber Air believes that such services will become"an affordable form of daily transportation for the masses, even less expensive than owning a car.

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Still won't fly south of the river, late at night.

Shameful journalism. Biggest load of rubbish I’ve ever read Don’t forget to get your free Uber

I’m not having that! I’m off to find a train and superglue myself to it....

Pretty sure , if somebody built one, the BBC would find a way to blame the U.K. for something or other

They can't even manage to control small drone usage.. How are they ever going to manage thousands of larger drones..

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