GPS World, November 2017
ONLINENOW newsletter excerpt Examining the First Phases of Airborne Street Traffic Its been a couple of months since we ran an update on unmanned aircraft so there are lots of news items to dust off and maybe look at more closely I suppose weve all seen those futuristic movies with masses of orderly air traffic traveling rapidly down invisible roads hundreds of feet above cities maybe the Jetsons first got us thinking about this vision of tomorrow Unmanned flying taxi demos in Dubai certainly caught my attention Could this be the launch of the first phase of airborne street traffic The two seater UAV built by Volocopter demonstrated in Dubai has 18 rotors and during the five minute demo for the media Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed was flown at around 200 meters over sand rather than over a populated city There surely could be a number of safety elements yet to be implemented before we see this become operational but you have to start somewhere By Tony Murfin Contributing Editor profEssional oEm Read more at gpsworld com category opinions n ov e m b e r w e b i n a r s register free at gpsworld com webinar nov 16 resilient Pnt for defense SponSored by nov 30 gnss Post Processing for Precise ground truth in autonomous driving connected cars develoPment SponSored by AsteRx m2a Smaller than a credit card low power dual antenna RTK receiver ideal for UAS and INS integrations Drone equipped with the AsteRx m2 powered AiRobot Inspector Pack AIM anti jamming technology Precise Heading in a compact design Best in class RTK cm level accuracy 4 GPS WOrld www gpsworld com november 2017
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