DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane BREAKTHROUGH MILESTONE IN FLYING TAXIS Source: Wisk Aero Houston's airports, Bush, Hobby and Ellington, have joined California-based Wisk Aero to develop and deploy the infrastructure needed to make flying taxis part of the travel mix in the greater Houston area. This is a new milestone for flying taxi service and the Wisk aircraft is unique. Here's what we know: The partners will establish vertiports for the flying taxis to vertically take off and land at the airports and around the city and suburbs The development planning, vetting it with communities and then building the vertiports will take several years The Wisk flying taxis are all-electric, autonomous passenger drones They're controlled by a human operator on the ground The vehicle takes off like a helicopter and then transitions to forward flight It can car