{"id":29259,"date":"2016-08-23T05:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/look-up-2017-is-going-to-be-the-year-of-the-autonomous-flying-taxi"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:21:51","slug":"look-up-2017-is-going-to-be-the-year-of-the-autonomous-flying-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/look-up-2017-is-going-to-be-the-year-of-the-autonomous-flying-taxi","title":{"rendered":"Look Up! 2017 is Going to be the Year of the Autonomous Flying Taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/look-up-2017-is-going-to-be-the-year-of-the-autonomous-flying-taxi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aircraft manufacturing company Airbus is looking to the skies for a solution to the growing traffic problem. They intend to send out a prototype for their self-flying taxi by next year.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who live in crowded cities, rush hour traffic is a daily struggle we aren\u2019t likely to get used to. The past few years have seen an ever-lengthening travel time in different cities all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is immune, not even the most innovative minds of the world. Aircraft manufacturing company <a href=\"http:\/\/airbus-sv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Airbus notes<\/a> the irony that techies in Silicon Valley come up with all sorts of innovation every day, yet none of them has solved one of their own biggest problems: traffic congestion. \u201cSilicon Valley may pride itself on speed, but during rush hour, everything around the IT Mecca grinds to a halt,\u201d they wrote on their website. \u201cThe situation is even worse in cities such as Mumbai, Manila, or Tokyo,\u201d they added. In the Philippines, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jica.go.jp\/philippine\/english\/office\/topics\/news\/140902.html\" target=\"_blank\">an estimate<\/a> says PHP 2.5 billion ($57 million) of potential income is lost to traffic every day, and will rise to P6 billion daily by 2030. In the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-traffic-study-idUSKCN0QV0A820150826\" target=\"_blank\">this loss<\/a> is estimated at $160 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/look-up-2017-is-going-to-be-the-year-of-the-autonomous-flying-taxi\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/look-up-2017-is-going-to-be-the-year-of-...ying-taxi\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aircraft manufacturing company Airbus is looking to the skies for a solution to the growing traffic problem. They intend to send out a prototype for their self-flying taxi by next year. For those of us who live in crowded cities, rush hour traffic is a daily struggle we aren\u2019t likely to get used to. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66474,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions\/66474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}