Jetpacks, flying cars and taxi drones: transport’s future is in the skies
By Jane Wardell
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Paramedics with jetpacks, border police in flying cars and metropolis workers commuting by drone all sound like science fiction – nevertheless the concepts are part of a superior air mobility (AAM) market that is anticipated to be value as so much as $17 billion by 2025.
As urbanisation leaves metropolis streets congested and advances in know-how allow for autos thought-about unimaginable merely a few years in the previous, using the sky for small-scale aircraft has develop to be extra and extra partaking.
“We can’t proceed to utilize freeway transport; 3D mobility is really crucial,” Anna Kominik, Asia Pacific Director at Wisk, said in an interview broadcast on Thursday at the Reuters Next conference.
Wisk, a unit of Boeing Co., has been testing Cora, an autonomous electrical aircraft that takes off and lands …