Akihabara News (Tokyo) \u2014 Yuji Akasaka, president of Japan Airlines (JAL), regards the spread of eVTOL (flying car) services around the nation as an urgent task.<\/p>\n
In an interview with national broadcaster NHK, Akasaka explained, \u201cIf you go to a rural area, there are many places that are difficult to reach by land, such as mountainous areas, remote islands, and detours.\u201d He believes that eVTOL transportation has the potential to quickly expand throughout regions such as Hokkaido in the north and on remote islands near Kyushu and Okinawa in the south.<\/p>\n
He adds that these services will likely encompass not only tourism and business use cases, but also employment for emergency relief during disasters.<\/p>\n
In Akasaka\u2019s view, Japan needs to move quickly to develop and utilize eVTOLs.<\/p>\n
\u201cFlying cars are no longer vehicles of the future,\u201d he asserts.<\/p>\n
But he also adds that \u201cthe most important thing is how to get society to accept them. The biggest factor in achieving that is to properly prove their safety. We have a lot of safety know-how which we have built up over many years.\u201d<\/p>\n
JAL has partnered for some time with Germany\u2019s Volocopter within the Japanese market, and more recently it reached an agreement with Wisk Aero, presumably with an eye towards providing longer-distance eVTOL flights in Japan.<\/p>\n
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Akihabara News (Tokyo) \u2014 Yuji Akasaka, president of Japan Airlines (JAL), regards the spread of eVTOL (flying car) services around the nation as an urgent task. In an interview with national broadcaster NHK, Akasaka explained, \u201cIf you go to a … Continue reading
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