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Wisk unveils autonomous four-seat eVTOL air taxi; Generation 6

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Wisk Aero, an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company, revealed the first self-flying, all-electric, four-passenger vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi. Wisk is one of the only AAM companies to pursue a self-flying first approach. Wisk is backed by The Boeing Company and Kitty Hawk Corporation.

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Toyota, JapanTaxi, KDDI and Accenture to pilot AI-based taxi dispatch support system

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jointly with KDDI Corporation and Accenture, have developed a taxi dispatch support system that predicts demand for taxi services, combining data from taxi service logs with predictions of demographics made by location-based big data from smartphones as well as event information. Toyota Motor Corporation and JapanTaxi Co.,

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Rapido to recall all e-bike taxis – ET Auto

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According to Rapido, nearly 20 lakh rides are being operated per week within the bike taxi segment. Following the scrapping of the Karnataka Electric Bike Taxi scheme, 2021, taxi-aggregator platform Rapido plans to recall all e-bike taxis running under their platform.

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Can air taxis fly between Delhi and Gurgaon? – ET Auto

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California-based Archer’s taxi-cum-plane is called e-VTOL, short for electrical vertical takeoff and landing. California-based Archer’s taxi-cum-plane is called e-VTOL, short for electrical vertical takeoff and landing. An air taxi (per passenger) will cost up to 1.5 Flyovers aren’t enough.

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Taxi trips from airport via apps set to become costlier – ET Auto

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Taxi rides from Bengaluru airport are set to cost more for passengers of app-based aggregators such as Ola , Uber and BluSmart , with a 30-40% expected increase in per ride pickup fee levied by these platforms when users book taxis from the airport, said people familiar with the development.

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Uber pays USD 178 mn to end legal fight with Australian taxi drivers – ET Auto

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An Uber statement described the complaints of the taxi industry as “legacy issues” and said rideshare regulations did not exist anywhere in the world when the company started more than a decade ago.

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Indian startup The ePlane to develop electric air taxi prototype by March 2025 – ET Auto

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The company’s vision is to alleviate congestion in urban spaces with eVTOLs. New Delhi: Chennai-based startup The ePlane Company expects to develop a certifiable prototype of a flying electric taxi by March next year as it works on ways to alleviate urban congestion.

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