in the near future in the skies over major cities could receive a "flying taxi" is an individual aircraft, able to carry up to six passengers. This is reported by experts of the International civil aviation organization (ICAO). According to ICAO, approximately one hundred companies – large and small – are developing such cars. Some of them hope to enter the market in the next year, but most targets for 2025 minutes.
Flying taxi, experts say, can relieve large cities of the world from traffic jams, however, that they still need to overcome many problems.
"If we want this innovation has been massive, will have to abandon pilot license, explained Dr. Luc van Dijck in an interview with the ICAO journal. To manufacture flying cars were economically viable, every unit should be carried out in air for at least 1500-1700 hours per year, and we didn't have enough pilots and instructors in commercial aviation. So without stand-alone systems to operate a taxi will be nobody".
van Dijk – founder and CEO of Daedalean, based in Zurich, Switzerland. It employs only 22 people. The company is engaged in the development of programs in Autonomous flight control for small electric aircraft. According to him, such machines will be much easier to use than the models equipped with internal combustion engines. Besides, they are cheaper, produce less noise, and are considered more secure.
D-R Dijk physicist, in different years he worked in such companies as Google and SpaceX, and also headed a project to develop programs for Autonomous control of ocean sailing in one of the Swiss technical universities. By the way, 21 is a graduate of the University received the Nobel prize in physics, including albert Einstein.
Dr. Dzik has founded his own startup in 2016. "I wanted to do something entirely new - he says. The most talented employees are usually in great demand, we compete with large companies, which can offer better salaries. But interesting developments are helping to attract real professionals".
Daedalean has partnered with dozens of companies working on the development of flying machines. Almost all of them intend to equip their products with Autonomous control system – autopilot.
"Our program can do everything, what can the pilot, but our goal is to create intelligence that surpasses human in all respects," says Dr. Dzik. According to him, we are not talking about robot-assistant pilot program will be able quite independently to make a flight from point A to point B.
System will have a "vision", which can replace the eyes of the pilot and the area of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing eye information. In addition, with a precision exceeding the capabilities of GPS, a special programme will determine the location of the device and other objects in space. In this case described the ability of new programmes should meet international standards to receive certification and have been admitted to the market. But all this does not seem professionals a distant hope: they believe that in the foreseeable future, residents of large cities will be able to use a new kind of unmanned air transport.
