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Rolls-Royce wants to build a flying taxi:
[...F]lying cars are happening again? Make up your mind! I can't handle all this uncertainty. Let's add it all up, shall we?
We have an Airbus and Audi partnership, currently trying to build a city car/flying taxi concept. We have Uber building a flying taxi hub in Paris. Then we have Kitty Hawk, a secret company founded by Google co-founder Larry Page -- it's working on a project called Cora. Yes, it's another flying taxi.
[...] But guess who else is joining the flying taxi race... Rolls-Royce.
Not the Rolls-Royce of luxury cars fame, Rolls Royce the engine company, that split from the car company decades ago.
That Rolls-Royce is looking to get into the flying taxi game and has drawn up plans to create an electric vehicle that could potentially reach speeds of 400 kilometres per hour (around 250 miles per hour). Rolls-Royce believes it could be ready to launch as early as the next decade, a timeline that's consistent with many of its potential competitors.
Wonder if they will give a special rate to Danny DeVito?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Snow on Monday July 16 2018, @03:24PM (4 children)
I can't wait to listen to the buzzing of 10,000 drones/flying cars while I try to enjoy my morning coffee.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Monday July 16 2018, @11:00PM (3 children)
I'm sure someone said the same thing when we transitioned from horses to automobiles, and they were probably true too for some time.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday July 16 2018, @11:35PM
They're still true now, as long as minorities put fart-pipes on their cars and have to drive them to work every morning.
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:12PM (1 child)
Hmm... the current noisy, dangerous, dirty and slow situation in vehicle-clogged cities (even ignoring larger-scale environmental issues) vs. being knee-deep in horseshit. Cancer, or, whatever you get from from wading through festering dung. Can I see option 3, please? (its called telling the motor and oil industry lobbyists to fuck off, installing a usable public transport system, then banning private cars from the streets so they don't clog up the roads for busses),
Of course, the transition to horses was also accompanied by both a vast population increase and, ultimately, a higher proportion of people owning cars than ever owned horses.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday July 17 2018, @10:40PM
Option 3 is death from above, flying cars. Noisy and potentially smoggy during take off and landing, but we've shifted the rest of the problem to the birds. Oh yea, did I mention death from above?