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Boeing’s electric flying taxi company Wisk takes flight in LA [Video]

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Wisk Aero, Boeing’s electric flying taxi company, held the first public eVTOL demonstration flights in LA this week. A video from the event shows the record-setting flight. more… The post Boeing’s electric flying taxi company Wisk takes flight in LA [Video] appeared first on Electrek.

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Cao Cao and DeepRoute form autonomous driving partnership; Level 4 robo-taxi service

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DeepRoute, an international self-driving vehicle technology provider, and Cao Cao Mobility, a strategically invested business of Geely Technology Group, are partnering to advance the design, development and commercialization of Cao Cao’s Level 4 autonomous robo-taxis service.

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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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Continental launches series production of technologies for robo-taxis

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Continental technologies such as ABS, radar and redundant brake system are being used in series production for robo-taxis for first time. Continental’s braking portfolio includes suitable technologies for robo-taxis, such as the MK C1 one-box brake system. Continental has held a stake in this driverless vehicle manufacturer since 2017.

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Assam launches India’s first 100% Electric Bike Taxi Service via ‘Baayu’ – ET Auto

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The Assam government launched ‘ Baayu ,’ an app-based electric bike taxi service that is an innovative and forward-thinking sustainable mobility initiative of the state government-run Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC). Initiating with zero-emission bike taxi & delivery services.

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Air taxi eVTOLs star at Paris Air Show’s first aerial mobility section

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The Paris Air Show broke all records for attendance with its habitual large-draw long-haul passenger planes and military jets, but the main stars of the 2023 biannual event were arguably the next-generation electric takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxis making their first appearance.

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Hyundai unveils its electric air taxi at CES, which could be powered by solid-state batteries

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Would you ride in Hyundai’s electric flying taxi? Hyundai’s advanced air mobility company, Supernal, unveiled its electric flying taxi at CES Tuesday. Hyundai debuts electric air taxi at CES The S-A2 is an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle that builds on its first concept that debuted at CES in 2020.

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