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Entrepreneurs race to develop flying cars
Airbus via AP
This artist rendering provided by Airbus shows a vehicle in their flying car project.
is advising several compa-
nies that have aircraft in the
works.
“The role we want to play
is as a catalyst for the entire
industry,” said Nikhil Goel,
an Uber project manager for
advanced programs.
Some of the aircraft are
drones that passengers will
be able to program for flight
using a smartphone. Others
will be operated from the
ground or a command center,
and some are designed for
human pilots.
It’s unclear yet how
much the aircraft will cost,
although prices are likely to
vary significantly. Some of
the aircraft are designed to
be individually owned, while
others are envisioned more for
commercial use. Designers
hope that if demand is high,
prices can be kept affordable
through economies of mass
production.
Several recent devel-
opments could make these
aircraft possible. Advances
in computing power mean
the rotors on multi-copter
drones can be adjusted many
times per second, making
the aircraft easy to control.
Drones have also benefited
from advances in battery and
electric motor technology.
Some
companies,
like
Chinese dronemaker EHang,
are scaling-up drones so that
they can carry people.
Another aircraft under
development, Santa Cruz,
California-based Joby Avia-
tion’s S2, looks more like a
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metropolitan areas to city
centers as urban areas grow
more congested and people
spend more time stuck in
traffic. They envision tens
of thousands of one- or
two-person flying taxis
delivering passengers to the
rooftops of office buildings in
city centers and other landing
pads during rush hours.
“In as little as 10 years,
products could be on the
market that revolutionize
urban travel for millions of
people,” said Zach Lovering,
the leader of Airbus’ project
to develop an autonomous
flying taxi called the Vahana.
The name means the mount
or vehicle of a Hindu deity.
Uber released a 98-page
report in October making the
business case for air taxis,
which the company sees
as the future of on-demand
transportation. Uber doesn’t
have any plans to develop
a flying car itself, but the
online transportation network
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conventional plane except
that there are 12 tiltrotors
spread along the wings and
tail. And some, like the
Vahana, a cockpit mounted
on a sled and flanked by
propellers in front and back,
don’t really look like any
aircraft in the skies today.
“In terms of what you can
make fly in a reliable manner,
the solution speed gateway
that (computer) chips have
gone through recently have
literally opened the door to
a whole new world of flying
machine possibilities,” said
Charles Eastlake, an Embry-
Riddle Aeronautical Univer-
sity professor emeritus of
aerospace engineering.
But he also cautioned:
“My best engineering guess
is that people actually using
autonomous air taxis in
the next 10 or 15 years is
possible, but definitely not
certain. The challenges are
big.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Even before George Jetson
entranced kids with his
cartoon flying car, people
dreamed of soaring above
traffic congestion. Inventors
and entrepreneurs have long
tried and failed to make the
dream a reality, but that may
be changing.
Nearly a dozen companies
around the globe, including
some with deep pockets such
as European aircraft maker
Airbus, are competing to be
the first to develop a new kind
of aircraft that will enable
commuters to glide above
crowded roadways. A few of
the aircraft under develop-
ment are cars with wings that
unfold for flight, but most
aren’t cars at all. Typically
they take off and land verti-
cally like helicopters. Rather
than a single, large main
rotor, they have multiple
small rotors. Each rotor is
operated by a battery-pow-
ered electric motor instead of
a conventional aircraft piston
engine.
It’s no sure bet that
flying-car
dreams
will
turn into reality. There are
many obstacles, including
convincing regulators that the
aircraft are safe, figuring out
how to handle thousands of
new low-flying aircraft over
cities without collisions and
developing batteries that will
keep them aloft long enough
to be useful.
But entrepreneurs are
moving forward. They see a
vast potential market for “air
taxis” and personally owned
small aircraft to transport
people from the fringes of
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CHICAGO (AP) — Even
in your 70s and beyond,
simple activities including
web-surfing, playing bridge
and socializing can stave off
mental decline, new research
says.
Benefits were greatest in
computer users and in those
without a gene variation
linked with Alzheimer’s
disease. But even among
seniors with that trait, mental
decline that sometimes
precedes dementia was less
common among those who
engaged in mind-stimulating
activities.
The results don’t apply
to costly, computer-based
games that purport to keep
the brain sharp — those were
not studied. The benefits were
found from activities that
many seniors have access to.
“They don’t have to spend
their life savings” on fancy
gadgets, said Dr. Yonas Geda,
the study’s senior author and
a neurologist at the Mayo
Clinic’s Scottsdale, Arizona,
campus.
The study was published
Monday in the journal JAMA
Neurology. The researchers
noted that the statistical link
they found with reduced risk
does not prove the activities
were responsible.
Still, said Heather Snyder
of the Alzheimer’s Associa-
tion, the results support the
idea that “being engaged
mentally is good for brain
health.”
The study looked at five
types of activities that are
thought to help keep the
mind sharp: computer use;
making crafts; playing games
including chess or bridge;
going to movies or other
types of socializing; and
reading books. The idea was
to see if these activities could
help prevent mild cognitive
impairment. That condition
involves problems with
memory, thinking and atten-
tion that don’t interfere much
with daily life but which
increase risks for developing
Alzheimer’s disease and
other types of dementia.
Almost 2,000 adults aged
70 to 93 without any memory
problems
participated.
They lived in Minnesota’s
Olmsted County, where the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
is located. They were asked
whether they had engaged
in any of the five activities
during the previous year and
if so, how often. They were
tested for the condition in
mental exams at the begin-
ning and every 15 months for
about four years. During that
time, 456 study participants
developed the mild impair-
ment.
Analysis
found
a
protective effect from each
activity except for reading
books. Study participants
who engaged in any of the
other activities at least once
weekly were 20 percent to 30
percent less likely to develop
the condition over the four
years than those who never
did those activities.
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