{"id":6675,"date":"2018-03-13T07:45:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2018-03-13T07:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:45:57","slug":"check-out-kittyhawks-its-autonomous-electric-flying-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/13\/check-out-kittyhawks-its-autonomous-electric-flying-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out Kittyhawk&#8217;s autonomous electric flying taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, if I had Google-founder money, I\u2019d be funding craziness like this\u00a0pretty much nonstop. Fortunately, actual Google founder Larry Page is doing just that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LeFxjRMv5U8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.techcrunch.com\/2018\/03\/13\/google-co-founders-kitty-hawk-unveils-is-electric-autonomous-flying-taxi\/?ncid=rss\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With Cora, Kitty Hawk\u2019s real vision comes through \u2013 the startup aims to build, own and operate a fleet of these as an on-demand self-flying taxi service, beginning commercial operations in as few as three years\u2019 time. No word yet on price or how this will operate exactly in terms of pick-up and drop-off points, but it seems farther along than a lot of the other pie-in-the-sky autonomous aerial taxi projects out there, thanks to official government support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NewImage-13.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"449\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LeFxjRMv5U8\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, if I had Google-founder money, I\u2019d be funding craziness like this\u00a0pretty much nonstop. Fortunately, actual Google founder Larry Page is doing just that. TechCrunch writes, With Cora, Kitty Hawk\u2019s real vision comes through \u2013 the startup aims to build, own and operate a fleet of these as an on-demand self-flying taxi service, beginning commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}