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    Bushnell, Dennis M

    Aerospace America, 10/2023, Letnik: 61, Številka: 9
    Journal Article

    Bushnell discusses electric air taxis which could turn out to be a stepping stone to a transportation revolution that will change where and how people live and maybe help clean up the planet. Personal air vehicles (PAVs) are a small part of an advanced air mobility movement dominated by startups flying prototypes of all-electric air taxis. PAVs have been a dream for more than a century, even if people did not call them that. The patent that Orville and Wilbur Wright filed in Mar 1903 for a one-person Wright Flying Machine could arguably be described as a PAV. Air traffic management remains the major pacing item for this revolution, given the raw numbers of PAVs that would have to be airborne: tens of millions versus the current tens of thousands. With such a scope, regulators will need to shift away from today's largely manual system in which pilots must be aboard aircraft and air traffic controllers must give them commands. The crux enabler will be an autonomous and artificially intelligent ATM system working in real time in concert with autonomous software onboard the PAVs.