{"id":35782,"date":"2017-03-31T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T04:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-worlds-first-flying-taxis-will-take-to-the-skies-in-five-months"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:50","slug":"the-worlds-first-flying-taxis-will-take-to-the-skies-in-five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-worlds-first-flying-taxis-will-take-to-the-skies-in-five-months","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s First Flying Taxis Will Take to the Skies in Five Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-first-flying-taxis-will-take-to-the-skies-in-five-months.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re a lot closer to flying cars that we think. In fact, Dubai has already begun testing a prototype of a self-driving hover-taxi with the hope of launching an aerial shuttle service by July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe autonomous aerial vehicle exhibited at the World Government Summit is not just a model. We have already experimented (with) the vehicle in a flight in (the) Dubai sky. RTA will spare no effort to launch the AAV in July 2017,\u201d shares director general of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1053646\/motoring\" target=\"_blank\">Mattar Al-Tayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To avail of the taxi service, passengers will simply select a destination before they board the vehicle with the help of a ground control center. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehang.com\/ehang184\" target=\"_blank\">EHang 184 quadcopter<\/a> can travel on a programmed course at 100 km an hour (60 mph) at an altitude of 300 meters (1,000 feet), the authority said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-worlds-first-flying-taxis-will-take-to-the-skies-in-five-months\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-worlds-first-flying-taxis-will-take...ve-months\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re a lot closer to flying cars that we think. In fact, Dubai has already begun testing a prototype of a self-driving hover-taxi with the hope of launching an aerial shuttle service by July. \u201cThe autonomous aerial vehicle exhibited at the World Government Summit is not just a model. We have already experimented (with) 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":[1490,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35782","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=35782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58226,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35782\/revisions\/58226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}