A big, adventurous project from the company behind the Veloster, Elantra and Sonata: the Uber Air Taxi, an electric personal air vehicle that features vertical take-off and landing, five-to-seven-minute recharging time, room for four and, one day down the road, autonomous piloting.
No word yet on whether a turnkey, race-ready version will be offered.
Here's the full release from Hyundai: …
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It'll be a good way for the super rich to fly from their Caribbean private island/Montana ranch to the pubic airport where their Lear awaits. The rest of us, not so much.
With 12 props, the probability of having one or more fail even with 99.9% individual reliability is 1.1934%...lets hope there’s plenty of redundancy.
RX Reven’ nervously flails his arms around while contemplating how to respond.
Never fly the A model of anything. Trust me, I'm a pilot.