Kitty Hawk Founder Predicts Autonomous eVTOL Aircraft Will Overtake Self-Driving Cars

Self-driving cars are already "a thing," albeit a not-widely-accepted one in the wake of some well-documented mishaps. But Sebastian Thrun, founder and CEO of Kitty Hawk, is convinced that autonomous operations will take off more quickly and comprehensively in the air than on the ground. He would say that, of course, given Kitty Hawk's ambitions in this area through its partnership with Boeing NeXt to develop the Cora eVTOL aircraft. At the Tech Crunch Disrupt SF event on October 3, 2019, he made the case for why autonomous aircraft for urban air mobility are more attainable than comparable efforts with ground vehicles, while explaining why we need to stop using the term "flying car."