[ad_1] Unfortunately, it failed to find a way to turn the project into a viable business venture. “No matter how hard we looked, we could not find a path to a viable business,” Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun told TechCrunch. The company had another project called Cora that developed two-seater autonomous taxis. Since that one […]
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Kitty Hawk’s ‘Heaviside’ is an ultra-quiet electric flying machine
[ad_1] It’s also tiny, as you can make out in a picture with a person crouching next to the aircraft with seating for one. TechCrunch got up close and personal with Heaviside, noting that at the moment the cockpit seats its passenger on bare carbon fiber. Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun told TechCrunch “The calculus […]
Boeing teams with flying taxi startup Kitty Hawk on ‘urban air mobility’
[ad_1] Both sides have clear incentives to forge an alliance . Kitty Hawk has already shown promise with Cora (above), an autonomous electric taxi prototype that’s already in testing in New Zealand. However, it’s still a relatively small outfit. Even with former Google exec Sebastian Thrun at the helm and the backing of Google’s Larry […]