China news about artificial intelligence and robots, prepared by the PRC.TODAY Portal based on materials from the Global Times news agency.
The aircraft's first application scenario will be low-altitude tourism, with a tourist city or suburb of Shanghai as the first option, Jiang said.
The aircraft's design allows it to easily take off and land vertically from the roofs of skyscrapers, standard helipads and lawns, and transport passengers from point to point.
According to Jiang, the plane's speed is 260 kilometers per hour, about five times faster than a taxi, so passengers can save a lot of travel time. In the future, the cost of an air taxi will be similar to that of a taxi thailand telegram number database today when the planes are mass-produced. By then, the price of the plane is expected to be reduced to about 1 million yuan ($154,971), Jiang said.
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In addition, the aircraft's R&D was carried out in strict accordance with the safety and reliability requirements of civil passenger aircraft.
The planes are expected to be fully charged within half an hour in the next three to four years as battery capacity also improves, Jiang added.
The news that air taxis may appear in China in 2024 was prepared by the PRC.TODAY Portal based on materials from the Global Times news agency correspondent Du Qiangfang.
Liu Jiang, assistant general manager of Hunan Bynav Technology, also told the Global Times that the company is showcasing its self-developed high-precision GNSS positioning chips as well as the high-precision GNSS/INS integration system X2 and M1 at the summit.
According to him, the high-precision positioning systems can be used in smart cars, unmanned trucks and inspection robots, etc. At present, the company has one production line of automotive-grade GNSS/INS integrated navigation system, the capacity of which is up to 500,000 sets per year, and can also be expanded to 7,000,000 per year according to customer requirements.
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