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By Carlton Reid September 27, 2021
According to a new report from the U.K. government innovations agency Innovate UK there will soon be a “significant” reduction in demand for bus travel partly because, within the next nine years, we will witness individualized passenger services in “revolutionary new aircraft.” Such futuristic air taxis have been the stuff of science fiction since the 1950s, but with advances in avionics, they could be picking you up—perhaps autonomously—as soon as 2030, states Innovate UK’s Transport Vision 2050. However, such advanced air mobility (AAM) services will have to avoid the 76,000 delivery drones that Innovate UK predicts will also be in the U.K.’s skies by then.
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