Autonomous Vehicles Take To The Skies With Emergency Auto Landing
There’s definitely a lot of room for different types of autonomous vehicle teams to be communicating and cross-pollinating their approaches and technology. We would all benefit.
There’s definitely a lot of room for different types of autonomous vehicle teams to be communicating and cross-pollinating their approaches and technology. We would all benefit.
Volocopter is testing its autonomous air taxi later this year, the ASX MOBi-One aircraft plans to use VerdeGo Aero’s IDEP systems, Eviation will use Siemens electric motors for the Alice 9-seat electric plane, Honeywell is developing flight-control & detect-and-avoid systems for urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles, Lilium says it will launch “much sooner” than 2025, and In-Flight Data snatches 3 Guinness World Records for BVLOS UAS flights.
The air taxi space is crowded — if not on paper, then with prototypes and flying demos. Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, is a global helicopter leader and no stranger to the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) world. It announced the Bell Nexus, a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft a few years ago at CES. This year, we caught up with the team at CES in Las Vegas to find out what it looks like and what it means for our future mobility needs by 2023.
Elon Musk has tweeted that a completely new navigation system will start rolling out this weekend, an improvement Tesla owners have been clamoring for.