"Flying taxis are no longer just a vision, but a way to take us to a new dimension of mobility," said German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer. Adding that this new means of transport is “a huge opportunity for companies and young start-ups, which have been developing this technology in a very concrete and successful way”.
Remember that, still at the last Geneva Motor Show, in March, Audi, Airbus and Italdesign presented Pop.Up Next. A kind of capsule, for the transport of just two passengers, which can either be attached to a chassis with wheels, circulating side-by-side with any automobile, or to a kind of drone, thus flying through the skies.
Meanwhile, Volocopter, a German start-up whose shareholders are the technological Intel and the German automobile group Daimler, designed an electric drone-type helicopter, designed to transport people through the skies of cities, with which it has even carried out flight tests. Assuming from now on the objective to provide commercial trips, within three to five years.
In November, the Chinese Geely, owner of car brands such as Volvo or Lotus, also decided to enter the business, acquiring the American Terrafugia, a start-up that already has two prototype flying cars, the Transition and the TF-X.
