{"id":99860,"date":"2019-12-17T14:50:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/watch-the-first-commercial-self-flying-helicopter-take-off"},"modified":"2019-12-17T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:50:50","slug":"watch-the-first-commercial-self-flying-helicopter-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/watch-the-first-commercial-self-flying-helicopter-take-off","title":{"rendered":"Watch the First Commercial Self-Flying Helicopter Take Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X6riQG3G9z0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rather than representing an entirely different take on the flying car, the helicopter\u2019s new brains are more equivalent to the \u201cself-driving\u201d features you see in contemporary cars \u2014 an effort to make vehicles safer and more accessible than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we design our lives around traffic and make decisions about where we live and work based on how hard it is to get there,\u201d Mark Groden, Skyryse CEO and founder, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/skyryse-reveals-the-skyryse-flight-stack-a-first-of-its-kind-automation-platform-to-make-urban-air-travel-mainstream-300975888.html\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cTo get there, we need to make urban flying as safe as riding an elevator and as accessible and affordable as riding a bus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The technology behind the feat called \u201cFlight Stack\u201d allows for either full or partial autonomous flight \u2014 think of it like cruise control on a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than representing an entirely different take on the flying car, the helicopter\u2019s new brains are more equivalent to the \u201cself-driving\u201d features you see in contemporary cars \u2014 an effort to make vehicles safer and more accessible than ever before. \u201cToday, we design our lives around traffic and make decisions about where we live and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99860","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}