Market electric vehicles with autopilot attracts a lot of players, and not all of them have experience in the production of vehicles. While these robotic vehicles are not detached from the earth's surface, but apparently, it is only a matter of time.
As reported in the Airbus subsidiary blog, vahana project started at the beginning of this year, which should give the world a fully automatic electric plane that can take off and land vertically, to carry one person and some luggage.
By the end of 2017 will be ready to a full-sized prototype, able to take off on their own, and demonstration, ready for mass production, it will be created by 2020.
The failure of one of the motor will not lead to loss of control. In case of failure all engines and control systems provided for the release of the parachute for a relatively safe landing of the aircraft. Airbus is looking for partners , with designed control algorithms will be available as open source, to accelerate the placing on the market of other automatic aircraft.
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