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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/flying-taxis-backed-by-larry-page-could-come-to-new-zealand-in-3-years/

 

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Electric, self-flying, vertical takeoff taxis are coming to New Zealand

 

For years, rumors have swirled about Kitty Hawk, a flying car startup that has been lavishly funded by Google co-founder Larry Page. Last year, Kitty Hawk unveiled an awkward-looking contraption that worked something like a flying jet ski.

But now we know that Kitty Hawk had something more ambitious in the works: a small, electric aircraft called Cora, which flies horizontally like an airplane but has the capability to take off and land vertically. On Tuesday, the company unveiled the new vehicle.

"Cora is self-piloting, which means that to get where you need to go, you don't need a pilot's license," says Eric Allison, Kitty Hawk's vice president for engineering. Cora can fly up to 110 miles per hour and has a range of 62 miles.

Kitty Hawk isn't just planning to build a new kind of aircraft; it's also planning to launch an air taxi service, starting in New Zealand. According to the New York Times, the company has reached a deal with the New Zealand government to allow the air taxi service to operate, and the company hopes to launch the service in as few as three years.

Federal Aviation Administration rules would have made it difficult to get a project like this off the ground in the United States. "New Zealand has long been viewed as having a thoughtful and safety-conscious regulatory regime," the Times reports. "That means that the rules it develops may become a template for other nations, including the United States."

 

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