Dubai conducted the first test of the “UAV Taxi” concept service. It hopes to use a huge drone as an air taxi to provide air taxi services for the already crowded Dubai traffic to ease ground traffic pressure.
This is a drone that looks like a drone in China. It is only a hundred times the size of a large UAV. The huge white body is a passenger compartment. It can carry 2 people. It should be noted that this is 2 Passengers, not pilots.
Above the passenger compartment is a beam structure similar to the DJI UAV, with a total of 18 rotors. The aircraft made a five-minute flight on a bay beach. The United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Muhammad watched the test flight of this "unmanned aerial taxi"!
Dubai is the capital of the UAE and a very modern city. Dubai's urban construction is moving towards a smart city, so drones and robots are at the heart of its plans. Dubai has positioned itself as the smartest city in the world, and ambitiously hope that by 2030, autonomous vehicles will account for a quarter of the world's total travel. They are not satisfied with self-driving cars, and now they are starting up with autonomous vehicles!
In fact, this drone was not designed by the UAE itself, but by Volocopter of Germany. The company expressed the hope that the unmanned taxi in the air would be put into operation within five years.
The company's CEO, Florian Reuter, said: "In terms of implementation, you can use your own smartphone, have an app, and book an air taxi to pick you up, then carry You go to the next destination."
Although this large aircraft has a crew cabin, it does not have a driving device. All the flights are operated intelligently. The mobile APP will plan the flight route for them, and then the taxi will take you to the target location!
Noel Sharkey, a computer scientist and robotics expert at Sheffield University in the United Kingdom, said that the biggest challenge would be to other air taxis, buildings, and birds. Class and drone dynamic obstacle avoidance."
“Will the sky in Dubai become crowded?” The ground of the city may become a dark place full of conspiracy and mystery like “Blade Runner” and “Fifth Element”.
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This is a drone that looks like a drone in China. It is only a hundred times the size of a large UAV. The huge white body is a passenger compartment. It can carry 2 people. It should be noted that this is 2 Passengers, not pilots.
Above the passenger compartment is a beam structure similar to the DJI UAV, with a total of 18 rotors. The aircraft made a five-minute flight on a bay beach. The United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Muhammad watched the test flight of this "unmanned aerial taxi"!
Dubai is the capital of the UAE and a very modern city. Dubai's urban construction is moving towards a smart city, so drones and robots are at the heart of its plans. Dubai has positioned itself as the smartest city in the world, and ambitiously hope that by 2030, autonomous vehicles will account for a quarter of the world's total travel. They are not satisfied with self-driving cars, and now they are starting up with autonomous vehicles!
In fact, this drone was not designed by the UAE itself, but by Volocopter of Germany. The company expressed the hope that the unmanned taxi in the air would be put into operation within five years.
The company's CEO, Florian Reuter, said: "In terms of implementation, you can use your own smartphone, have an app, and book an air taxi to pick you up, then carry You go to the next destination."
Although this large aircraft has a crew cabin, it does not have a driving device. All the flights are operated intelligently. The mobile APP will plan the flight route for them, and then the taxi will take you to the target location!
Noel Sharkey, a computer scientist and robotics expert at Sheffield University in the United Kingdom, said that the biggest challenge would be to other air taxis, buildings, and birds. Class and drone dynamic obstacle avoidance."
“Will the sky in Dubai become crowded?” The ground of the city may become a dark place full of conspiracy and mystery like “Blade Runner” and “Fifth Element”.
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