Be your own pilot: Google founder launches self-flying taxi

A new flying car has been unveiled by Google co-founder Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk company. The makers hope it will usher in a new era of self-flying ‘air taxis’ that would work like Uber. The vehicle, named ‘Cora,’ is an electric air taxi designed and built by Kitty Hawk, a California-based company. After eight years […]

Airbus is ready to test its self-flying taxi

We’ve covered Airbus’s Vahana project, which is the aeronautical company’s endeavor to build a self-flying taxi network, in detail before. Now, it looks as though Airbus has reached a major milestone. The company is ready to test its Vahana flying car after moving it from the company’s headquarters to a dedicated hangar in Pendleton, Oregon, […]

Twitter’s former head engineer is now helping Larry Page build self-flying cars (TWTR)

Twitter Long-time Twitter engineering exec Alex Roetter, who left the company a year ago as part of Twitter’s never ending talent exodus, has surfaced at a startup building flying cars, Business Insider has confirmed. He’s working at Kitty Hawk, the secretive startup backed by Google co-founder Larry Page. Very little is known about Kitty Hawk, […]