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Transportation,
Administrative/Regulatory

May 23, 2019

Electric urban air taxis: science fiction or legal matter of fact?

Not surprisingly, technology is not the main barrier to the introduction of urban air taxis. Rather, regulation and public policy are the main obstacles.

Sasha Rao

Nixon Peabody

Email: srao@nixonpeabody.com

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Electric urban air taxis: science fiction or legal matter of fact?
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Many ideas that seemed far-fetched just 10 years ago are ubiquitous today. Ride-sharing applications are widely used. Self-driving cars have appeared on our roadways. Will electric air taxis be next?

The emerging field of urban air mobility has risen up seemingly overnight with myriad well-funded companies around the world moving ahead with the development of electric air taxis and the necessary supporting infrastructure to take urba...

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