Meanwhile, Dubai Now Has New Radars To Catch People Using Mobile Phones While Driving, so watch out! How Does The System Work? Besides monitoring behavior, the system will also ensure drivers and passengers wear facemask and follow social distancing. Roads and Transport Authority had launched an Artificial Intelligence technology to monitor drowsy and distracted driving. Recently, Dubai taxis introduced a new system to monitor and track the behaviour of taxi drivers. “We hope to have a flying car racing in the Middle East region in 2022.”ĭubai Taxis Use Artificial Intelligence To Monitor Driver Behaviour He said he hopes that the first flying racing car will start at the beginning of next year. In the future, we will explore to do it even faster.” The battery is taken out and a new battery goes in just 14 seconds. So, the vehicle comes in for an electric battery fix-up. Speaking to Khaleej Times, Jack Withinshaw, chief commercial officer at Airspeeder, said: “The flying racing car’s battery lasts 10 minutes at the moment. The next generation flying car which will be released by the end of the year, is expected to hit 160km. The flying racing car is 4.1 metres long and designed for agility and performance racing.Īt the moment, the cars can travel up to a speed of 120kmph. Electric flying car manufacturer Alauda is the brain behind the innovation. The airspeeders take off and land vertically, using electric manned multicopters. Airspeeder, the first electric flying racing car series, made its debut at the Etisalat pavilion in Gitex 2021. Move over regular taxis! Dubai has brought to life the future of transport with the first ever flying car. The First Ever Flying Car Can Reach Up To 120Kmph The mega event is happening right now at Dubai World Trade Centre and if you want to visit, you need to register in advance, do it here.Īlso read: The World’s Fastest Police Boat Costing $400,000 Is Now In Dubai The global tech show kicked off on 17 October and features over 700 startups from more than 60 countries along with a network of more than 400 international investors. See this and other original stories about our world on The New Reality airing Saturday nights on Global TV, and online.If you’re in Dubai, here’s something you MUST do right now! Gitex is BACK, and this time, its bigger and better than ever. But the ultimate goal is to be producing tens of thousands of these at a price that would be in line with an SUV,” he said. “Our objective for next year is to produce 260 vehicles. Leng is keeping the price tag to himself, but he believes as the industry advances, BlackFly will become more accessible to people. BlackFly is not allowed to go over built-up areas. The team is working hard to make the aircraft available to consumers soon.īut first adopters will only be able to fly in rural areas. “I told this to a few people at Oshkosh: when you’re in the aircraft, you feel like you are the aircraft and the aircraft is you.” You have a panoramic view of anywhere,” said Li. The annual event can bring in hundreds of thousands of spectators. In July 2021, Li, Menton and Leng flew Blackfly at the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture show in Oshkosh, Wisc. It wasn’t until 2018 that he started letting the world get a glimpse of BlackFly. Do you want to be part of our team?’ And I just said, ‘Yes, yes, here I am,’” said Li, who is now the plant manager at Opener.Įleanor Li, plant manager at Opener, in a flight simulator at the company headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.įor years, Leng had been secretly working on his invention while recruiting. “Marcus basically came along and said, ‘Oh, we’re making this huge carbon epoxy part. She joined Opener and moved to Silicon Valley without knowing the project she was hired to work on. Eleanor Li, Menton’s classmate at the University of Toronto in mechanical engineering, did too. She wasn’t the only one who took the leap. “But I could get from the phone call that it was a pretty exciting and innovative opportunity and decided to take the leap to jump on board.” At the time, the company was completely in stealth mode and he wasn’t able to say what the product was, who the investors were, really any of the technical details,” Menton told Global News. He was looking to hire two mechanical engineers. “I first met Marcus on a phone call the day before my last exam of university. When she first signed on with the company, she had no idea what product she’d be working on. Menton has been working on BlackFly for years. So basically, when you get close to the ground, the aircraft will take over,” Menton said. It’s electric, and therefore emissions-free. She said the aircraft is almost exclusively made from carbon fibre, including the wings, fuselage and propellers. Kristina Menton, director of operations at Opener, flying BlackFly.
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