Sunday Tribune

AVIATION COMPANIES ENVISION FLYING TAXIS

As urban traffic gets busier and difficult, entrepreneurs are looking to a future where commuters can just hop into "air taxis" to whisk them over clogged roads. Companies such as Archer, Joby and Wisk are working on electric-powered aircraft that take off and land vertically like helicopters then propel forward like planes. “The Jetsons' is definitely a reference that people make a lot when trying to contextualise what we are doing,” Archer Vice President Louise Bristow told AFP, referring to a 1960s animated comedy about a family living in a high-tech future. "The easiest way to think about it is a flying car, but that's not what we're doing." What Archer envisions is an age of aerial ride-sharing, an "Uber or Lyft of the skies," Bristow said.

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