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Japan is making a push to develop flying cars, enlisting companies including Uber Technologies Inc. and Boeing Co. in a government-led group to bring airborne vehicles to the country in the next decade.
The group will initially comprise 21 businesses and organizations, including Airbus SE, NEC Corp., a Toyota Motor Corp.-backed startup called Cartivator, ANA Holdings Inc., Japan Airlines Co., and Yamato Holdings Co., according to a statement Friday from the trade ministry in Tokyo. Delegates will gather Aug. 29 to help chart a road map this year, it said.
"The Japanese government will provide appropriate support to help realize the concept of flying cars, such as creation of acceptable rules," the ministry said.
(Score: 2) by SparkyGSX on Monday August 27 2018, @06:16PM
Don't worry, the talking will start quickly after people start dying.
It's not just idiot pilots; most companies claiming to build the "people carrying multirotor drone" type flying cars also claim they will fly autonomously. Well, somehow. What happens when the electronics fail? What if the GPS gets funky? Are they going to have actual radar, automatic collision avoidance systems, full redundancy on all systems?
In my opinion, this is still a bunch of twats from silicon valley screaming "DISRUPTIVE!" and thinking anything can be solved with some more software. Those twats can't even get a smartphone app to run reliably, but life-and-death critical software shouldn't be an issue.
If you do what you did, you'll get what you got