“I think the way you’ll buy an airplane ticket in the future will be like calling up an Uber or Lyft on your phone.”
In Robert Rose’s vision for the future, we are currently on the cusp of a dramatic transformation of human mobility. A veteran of Tesla and Space-X, Rose’s new company, Reliable Robotics, is now working to fully automate flight.
So, I had a fair bit of exposure to aircraft when I was a kid. And when I started taking flying lessons again about six years ago, I was really shocked how aircraft had not really evolved. We possess the capability to put more advanced levels of automation and safety enhancing technology into aircrafts. Why aren’t we doing it? So it was in the exploration of that question that I decided to start this company.
People don’t like to talk about that. The number one and number two causes of fatal accidents in aviation is what’s referred to as controlled flight into terrain, which means a controlled, unintentional intersection with the ground – basically putting the plane into the side of a mountain. That’s basically what our company is doing, is building these navigation and automation technologies that enable you to truly have a fully automated aircraft that does not require full-time pilots sitting in the plane monitoring it.The reason for doing this, number one, is safety. But number two, once you have an aircraft that can do this, it opens up aviation to many more people and enables new types of aircraft as well.
Q: That final step sounds almost like the Jetsons–near universal access to flight, essentially from your doorstep. Is that where you see this going?Yeah, I think that’s feasible by the end of next decade. I think the way you’ll buy an airplane ticket in the future will be like calling up an Uber or Lyft on your phone.
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