Pop.Up Next: The Audi and Airbus Flying Taxi is now a reality

Audi and Airbus have officially introduced Pop.Up Next, the prototype that anticipates the flying, electric and autonomous taxi of the future. There is currently a model on a scale of 1: 4 that has already performed some tests under real conditions.

The Pop.Up Next It was presented at Drone Week, an event taking place these days in Amsterdam, Holland. We saw first-hand the progress of the Audi project and the Airbus, which had the collaboration of the Italian firm Italdesign. Regarding the previous appearances, the prototype retains its scale 1: 4, although its creators still say that it will be useful over the next decade.

The novel Pop.Up NextIn the broad sense, an electric taxi, flying and autonomous, means a zero emission car capable of driving itself and equipped with a cabin configured as a pbadenger drone. The proper functioning of the system is currently being verified with the help of various simulations performed through Voom, one of the Airbus subsidiaries in South America.

The car drone Its modular structure allows it to be divided into three autonomous and independent parts. The first forms the cabin in which pbadengers travel, which is 2.5 meters long and 1.4 meters wide. Two transport modules coexist as well: one with wheels for traveling by road, with 130 kilometers of electric autonomy, and another with eight rotors for air transport, with a flight range of 100 kilometers and a full charging capacity in just 15 minutes.

"More and more people are moving to cities and, in the future, older people, children and people without a driver's license will be able to comfortably use the taxis," he said at the conference. his speech at Drone Week Bernd. Martens, Director of Purchasing and Information Technology Audi.

This is not the only air project that has to Liza Audi. There is the initiative Urban air mobility, which plans to launch an air taxi that would operate in the facilities of the brand of four rings in Inglostadt, Germany, sign of its willingness to adapt to the future of mobility.

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