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posted by chromas on Monday July 16 2018, @09:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the up-up-and-away dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:09PM (#708123)

    Hmm, I wonder how dense helicopter/drone traffic has to become before its more economical to hold them aloft with giant fans on the ground blowing upward.