Airbus presented the project of a flying taxi Bashny.Net

A subsidiary of Airbus, based in California, and developing a flying taxi called Vahana, has revealed the first design sketch of the project. A full-sized prototype, according to preliminary data, may be released before the end of 2017.





"Taxi" will be a drone for one passenger or cargo. A flying car will complement the system of Autonomous control, it will be able to identify other objects in the air and away from collisions.

Airbus is also developing a larger flying taxi. The device will be called CityAirbus, he will get horizontal propellers that allow vertical take-off and landing. In addition, it will be equipped with an autopilot but the controls would still be implemented.


In addition to Airbus, flying machine, Toyota also developing and osnovatel of Google Larry page. The most famous of modern flying cars are a Slovak project AeroMobil, German Carplane with a double fuselage, as well as models of the American company Terrafugia — Transition and TF-x published

 

Source: motor.ru/news/2016/10/24/airbusvahana/