£50m from UK Gov for drone and flying taxi tech and illegal drone crackdown

Apparently “hybrid remote ID” now has some funding…

Given it mentioned flying taxis, I did have to check it wasn’t 1 April.

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Quote “driving forward regulation to get flying taxis in the sky from 2028

All I can say to that is :cow::poop:

There is no sign of flying cars in production yet.

Recent trials in York ;o)

Only a minute, watch till the end

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It’s not playing.

Unless your taking the Michael because the vehicles don’t exist :rofl:

No, it’s definitely a flying car… …and the pilot should probably have found himself in a wheelchair :neutral_face:

Deffo there for me, little teaser …

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It says he didn’t stop…but he DID when he hit the ground!!

At least he was under 400ft

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Did he have RID too?

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I don’t know, but his Op-ID label looked a bit short :rofl:

I wonder if his “taken to the air bags” deployed.

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Not sure about the air version, but 100% ball bag.

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Amazing forecast of £100 billion industry (in UK, I presume) by 2050.

Here is another report on the government announcement:
The Register report on the government announcement
with some robust comments.

Peter

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