Flying taxi-drone from Airbus prepare for tests

Aircraft company is developing a project of a flying taxi CityAirbus. He can rise above the traffic and deliver passengers to the destination as quick as possible. While Airbus has set itself the ambitious task of creating a flying taxi cab company that you can call through the app on your smartphone.





 

In Silicon valley every day invent high-tech solutions to many problems, but, according to Airbus, with tubes and so far no one has failed to understand. According to experts Airbus Group, the best way to decongest the city roads is the start of unmanned flying taxi.

However, in the framework of the project CityAirbus will be developed not so much car, how many unmanned aerial vehicle. Airbus intends to create a platform for multi-rotor aircraft for the carriage of passengers.





 

Flying taxi can be called through the application, and planting will be carried out at the nearest helipad. On Board the UAV will be a pilot, but only the first time, while the laws require that behind the wheel of an Autonomous vehicle was the operator.

As reported by Business Insider, Airbus is also developing an Autonomous helicopter on electricity for commercial and private use. The first test runs of the prototype LA Vahana will be held before the end of 2017. Such period to the company not seems fantastic. According to chief project engineer homeland Lasoff, modern batteries, motors and other aviatekhnologii allow you to develop an unmanned helicopter without particular limitations.

The implementation of a similar project deals with the German manufacturer E-Volo, which has already presented a prototype of a flying car (and in fact, multicopter) Volocopter. The aircraft can stay aloft for just 20 minutes and transport up to two people. published



Source: ecotechnica.com.ua/transport/1318-letayushchee-taksi-bespilotnik-ot-airbus-gotovyat-k-testam.html