Meanings of fly taxis in English

Can Dubai go green with flying taxis and 'rooms on wheels'?

Fun things happened this week, too: Big promises about electric vehicles, and about flying taxis.

Air New Zealand has partnered with a company making and testing flying taxis, Zephyr Airworks.

Companies pin their hopes on "electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles"-autonomous ,flyingtaxis.

The company has developed a heavily digitalized, vertical take-off jet, and plans to offer on-demand flying taxis before 2025.

At the much larger end of the scale, Startup Karman Electric wants to use ground-based power lines to run people-filled flying taxis.

Its flying taxis will be able to ferry passengers from London to Manchester in under an hour, according to the company's website.

While autonomous cars and flying taxis might be the future of transport in Dubai, they will not work everywhere, said Rode of LSE Cities.

From rotating hotels to flying taxis, Dubai cannot be stopped with its daily announcements of 'how can we do this better than everyone else'.

The company has moved into electric bikes and scooters, as well as meal deliveries and has long-term projects on autonomous vehicles and flying taxis.

The firm said it was attempting to change its methods, engaging with regulators in the US and Europe early to win approval for flying taxis.

RTA director general Mattar al-Tayer said the city has also been looking into self-driving cars, "sky pods" that run on suspended rails and flying taxis.