Companies such as Archer, Joby and Wisk are working on electric-powered aircraft that take off and land vertically like helicopters then propel forward like planes.is definitely a reference that people make a lot when trying to contextualise what we are doing,” Archer Vice President Louise Bristow told AFP, referring to a 1960s animated comedy about a family living in a high-tech future.What Archer envisions is an age of aerial ride-sharing, an “Uber or Lyft of the skies”, Bristow said.
Joby executives said on a recent earnings call that its first production model aircraft should be in the skies later this year. “We were at the end of the flight test expansion campaign at test points well above what we expect to see in normal operations,” Joby executive chairman Paul Sciarra told analysts.
Joby has announced partnerships with SK Telecom and the TMAP mobility platform in South Korea to provide emissions-free aerial ridesharing. The US airline has pre-ordered 200 Archer aircraft with an eye toward using them for “last-mile” transportation from airports, Bristow told AFP.
There’s no different from MRT/LRT with station to station as this service also requiring destinated takeoff/landing pad, wrong ?
Instead of fixing our traffic jams with convenient public transport, we're about to turn our skies into a traffic jam as well. We are smart!