{"id":114114,"date":"2020-10-10T02:17:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T09:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/france-to-test-flying-taxis-from-next-year-operators"},"modified":"2020-10-10T02:17:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T09:17:32","slug":"france-to-test-flying-taxis-from-next-year-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/france-to-test-flying-taxis-from-next-year-operators","title":{"rendered":"France to test \u2018flying taxis\u2019 from next year: operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/france-to-test-flying-taxis-from-next-year-operators.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Airborne taxis are coming?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cFlying taxis\u201d will start taking off from an aerodrome north of Paris as soon as next June, operators said, in a trial ahead of a vast tourist influx for the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment will take place at the Pontoise-Cormeilles-en-Vexin aerodrome some 90 minutes northwest of the capital by car, according to a joint announcement by the Ile-de-France region, airports operator Groupe ADP and the RATP public transport agency.<\/p>\n<p>A drone-like, fully-electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (VTOL) dubbed VoloCity, produced by German company Volocopter, was chosen for the innovative trial with flying taxis in a peri-urban area, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airborne taxis are coming? \u201cFlying taxis\u201d will start taking off from an aerodrome north of Paris as soon as next June, operators said, in a trial ahead of a vast tourist influx for the 2024 Olympics. The experiment will take place at the Pontoise-Cormeilles-en-Vexin aerodrome some 90 minutes northwest of the capital by car, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}