VIENNA: As carmakers push ahead with self-driving vehicles, an Austrian aerospace company and its Chinese partner showed off their pilot-less"flying taxi" for the first time in Europe on Thursday.
Joining the race for new autonomous aircraft services that do not require runways, EHang entered a strategic partnership with Austria's FACC, owned by Chinese aerospace group AVIC, last year, aiming to offer short-haul services for passengers, industrial equipment and urgent medical deliveries. The passenger cabin is small, with leg room that taller passengers might find less-than adequate, an Austrian photographer who took part in a demonstration flight told Reuters.FACC says it has already received several thousand orders for the 300,000 euro drone, with the highest demand in China.
"Technically... urban mobility, flying without a pilot is possible, it's not a dream, it's existing," said Machtlinger.
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