The CEO of Joby Aviation hopes to launch a new class of electric-powered aircraft vying to become taxis in the sky.

However, the launch a decade ago of app-using, driver-reliant Uber in Toronto without any government permissions, forcing its way into the taxi market, showed how commerce fuelled by emerging ...

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To start, air taxi prices almost certainly will be significantly more that the cost of taking a cab or Uber ride from JFK airport to Manhattan, but the difference could narrow over time because ...

We want to turn what are now one- and two-hour trips into five-minute trips,” Bevirt, 51, told the Associated Press before a Joby air taxi took off on a test flight in Marina, Calif.

To start, air taxi prices almost certainly will be significantly more that the cost of taking a cab or Uber ride from JFK airport to Manhattan, but the difference could narrow over time because ...

We want to turn what are now one- and two-hour trips into five-minute trips,” Bevirt, 51, told The Associated Press before a Joby air taxi took ... in 1960s-era cartoon series, “The Jetsons ...

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