{"id":76882,"date":"2018-03-13T00:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T07:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/larry-pages-self-flying-air-taxis-to-take-off-in-3-years"},"modified":"2018-03-13T00:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T07:42:42","slug":"larry-pages-self-flying-air-taxis-to-take-off-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/larry-pages-self-flying-air-taxis-to-take-off-in-3-years","title":{"rendered":"Larry Page\u2019s self-flying air taxis to take off in 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/cars\/2018\/03\/13\/larry-pages-self-flying-air-taxis-to-take-off-in-3-years\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/gear\/2017\/04\/24\/google-electric-flying-car-kitty-hawk\/\">Kitty Hawk<\/a>, an aeronautics firm funded by Alphabet CEO and Google co-founder Larry Page, is inching closer to its plans of creating Uber for flights: it\u2019s unveiled <a href=\"https:\/\/cora.aero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cora<\/a>, a fully electric self-flying air taxi that can cover 100 km (62 miles) on a single charge \u2013 and you\u2019ll soon be able to hail one with your phone.<\/p>\n<p>Cora has been in the works for a while now, and it\u2019s just been cleared to begin tests in New Zealand. The goal is for Kitty Hawk to launch a fleet of its flying taxis within the next three years. You can <a \n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Click on photo to start video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d target=\u201c_blank\u201d rel=\u201cnofollow noopener\u201d&gt;watch a clip of the vehicle in action here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by batteries and driven by a dozen rotors, the vehicle has a wingspan of 3.6m (12 feet), and can seat two passengers. It can take off vertically, which means it doesn\u2019t need a runaway to land on \u2013 a parking lot or rooftop will do. Kitty Hawk is already managing operations in New Zealand through Zephyr Airworks, a company it set up in the country in 2016, and is also building an app that will let you hail flights.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/cars\/2018\/03\/13\/larry-pages-self-flying-air-taxis-to-take-off-in-3-years\/\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/cars\/2018\/03\/13\/larry-pages-self-flyi...n-3-years\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitty Hawk, an aeronautics firm funded by Alphabet CEO and Google co-founder Larry Page, is inching closer to its plans of creating Uber for flights: it\u2019s unveiled Cora, a fully electric self-flying air taxi that can cover 100 km (62 miles) on a single charge \u2013 and you\u2019ll soon be able to hail one with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76882","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}