As youre stuck on the freeway, something in the sky catches your eye.
Its not your airplane leaving without you and its not a news chopper covering the sprawl.
Air taxi is the name for an electric vertical-takeoff and -landing aircraft, also known as aneVTOL.
That is, if specific infrastructure is in place, she said.
When we talk about infrastructure for AAM, there are two parts, Zhang told Business Insider.
The other part is the digital infrastructure.
The latter will play a critical role in ensuring safety and efficient operations, Shaheen said.
Meanwhile, other eVTOL developers face specific software challenges related to their aircraft.
For example, Wisk, a subsidiary of Boeing, developed an autonomous four-seat air taxi.
The cloud-based platform is called VoloIQ and has been in development since 2020.
The technology is supported by Microsoft Azure and described as the digital brains behind Volocopters eVTOL system.
Volocopter also sees a stand-alone business case for VoloIQ as a third-party software, Seywald said.
The problems it solves are not mostly Volocopter-specific but industry-specific, Seywald added.
The certifications are within reach, but operation, I think, has not gotten enough attention.
We have seen from shared-mobility deployments if you build it, riders do not always come, she said.
It is very important to demonstrate viable use cases and to serve a mobility need.
In part, service providers can approach this by developing and using Americans with Disabilities Act-accessible consumer apps.
