TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Glenn CHAPMAN "Taxis take to the sky to rise above jammed traffic" / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Archer Aviation Inc. " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENT
This undated and unlocated image released by Archer Aviation Inc. shows the company's Maker eVTOL aircraft, a personal electric vertical takeoff and landing demonstrator aircraft. - As urban traffic gets more miserable, entrepreneurs are looking to a future in which commuters hop into "air taxis" that whisk them over clogged roads. Companies such as Archer, Joby and Wisk are working on electric-powered aircraft that take off and land vertically like helicopters then propel forward like planes. Neighborhood parking garage rooftops or shopping mall lots could serve as departure or arrival pads for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. (Photo by Handout / Archer Aviation Inc. / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Archer Aviation Inc. " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS