Robo-Taxis and Air-Taxis are Coming in 2026
Are Robots good drivers?
The future is here and the world of transportation is going to undergo a massive change. Within a year there will be robot driven taxis on our streets and automated air-taxis in the air. The world will look something like the futuristic cityscape created in “The Fifth Element”, with Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich. A spectacular science-fiction visual feast conceived and directed by Luc Besson in 1997.
There have been tests conducted and it seems that driverless taxis do not have accidents, unlike human driven ones. Would you feel comfortable sitting in a cab with no driver. In China automated cabs are on the streets and these will soon be on the roads in Europe and America.
Would you put your trust in the mechanized hands of a machine that drives you around in your city or in an air-taxi? I guess I would only feel comfortable sitting in one of these automated cabs after a year or two have passed, and whatever glitches there are in the systems are ironed out successfully. I guess people were fearful of losing their lives, when the first passenger planes took flight.
A number of issues have been raised regarding having robot taxis and they were, when the passenger is erratic, there is a mechanical fault or if the system is controlled by hackers. What would the passengers do to get out alive and what could taxi companies do to ensure the safety of every passenger, could there be an automatic shutdown, in these situations? That would not work in the case of air-taxis, where the vehicle and the passengers would not survive, if it fell to Earth like a brick, unless a parachute contraption was attached for safety purposes.
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