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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: 2) by bob_super on Monday July 16 2018, @05:02PM (1 child)
You don't understand, man. This is disruptive, man. Those idiots who have been building helicopters for decades, they're so encrusted in their slow methodical habits, man. They don't know how to be Agile and disruptive, man. They don't understand computers, and we understand computers, so we're totally gonna teach them how they should have done their job all along. I have a drone, man. How hard is it to scale a drone to carry people, man ? It's a great idea, and it's only the crusty old people who don't understand code who don't get it.
(Yes, Rolls isn't a fucking Silicon Valley startup. Going after the many many other "we can do that, because Elon can make rockets" Dunning-Kruger optimists)
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:35AM
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