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Flying robotaksi easier to do than unmanned vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles easier to construct than those of unmanned vehicles for traffic. In principle, it is logical and understandable thought, just few people thought about it, говорит Carl Dietrich (Carl Dietrich), CEO of Terrafugia , which is engaged in manufacturing and flying cars.
The conference, which was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Karl Dietrich made a presentation and promised that every citizen will be able to buy a car with an unmanned vertical take-off and landing within a decade.
The company is developing a robotic Terrafugia flying car TF-X . It is now clear that the need to create it less complex technology than that used Google for unmanned vehicles.
The air does not need to recognize the signs and react to them. Do not need to monitor the environmental situation with dozens of moving around vehicles and pedestrians, who are capable of unpredictable actions. In the air there are no pedestrians.
Flying car computer controlled should only calculate the trajectory in the air 3D-space (which is easier than to make a route on the way to the ground), is well off and choose a suitable place to land. This is a fairly simple task, says Dietrich. In the end, autopilots are used in air transport with a 80, and the first automatic landing system appeared in 1979.
Thus, technically TF-X will be easier than the robots cars from Google, Honda, Mercedes and other manufacturers who are actively working in this direction.
The main problem of the flying car - laws. You need to allow people without air transport management skills to own flying cars. If the relevant laws are passed, then the model TF-X can become very popular. Car-plane with vertical takeoff and landing can fly 800 miles on one tank, carrying up to four passengers.
The first model Transition can not fly without a man, but this device will hit the market in two to three years, and is now undergoing Flight test. By the way, about 100 people have already placed pre-orders for this car worth $ 279 thousand. Unfortunately, it has no screws for vertical take-off, like TF-X, so that the machine can be put only at the airport.
Source: habrahabr.ru/post/202830/
