Boeing Invests $450 Million To Build a Fully Autonomous Flying Taxi

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American aircraft maker Boeing has boosted the confidence of electric flying taxi maker Wisk by investing a further $450 million in its mission to build an autonomous and electric vertical take-off and landing. Find out more at 🚀 Engineering

are aplenty and competition is also heating up. Reuters reported that most startups are aiming for the 2024 launch of their services. However, Boeing is in no hurry since it intends to leapfrog the first generation eVTOLs and begin its journey with fully autonomous flying taxis. According to the Reuters report, that would be Wisk's sixth-generation aircraft, even though the company claims the bragging rights to have performed the first autonomous eVTOL passenger flight in 2017.

Industry sources told Reuters that it would probably take until 2028 for Wisk to get its autonomous flying taxi certified by the authorities and Boeing's $450 million will surely go a long way in achieving this goal. Apart from delivering a flying taxi service that could whisk you to the other part of the town autonomously and in no time, Boeing would surely be interested in applying learnings in autonomy and electric propulsion to its aircraft business at large.

 

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I wouldn't even trust autonomous road taxi, this is way off limits.

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