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Google Co-Founder Larry Page Backed Flying Taxi "Cora" Flies In New Zealand

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We first learned back in 2016 that Google founder and Alphabet (Google’s parent company) Larry Page had two "flying car" extends underway , but there was no official statement at the time until we started hearing about tests last year, today it"s a great opportunity to meet Cora. The "air taxi" created by Page"s Kitty Hawk startup , the electric flying "car" is planned for use as a major aspect of a transportation benefit rather than deal to singular users (probably because of the regulations and infrastructure that may come with such innovations). It"s worked to utilise self-flying programming, and uses 12 lift fans for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) like a helicopter, so there"s no requirement for a runway. In the air, Cora is able to move at about 177Km/hr at about 3,000 feet. The air craft has three free flight-PCs and can keep operating just fine regardless of whether one goes down, while every rotor works autonomously and ju...