A Larry Page-backed drone guru expects you to be a future passenger. Heres why
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There may be further growth as U.S. businesses and government seek to diversify drone sourcing, Benowitz said, but, "Its quite small still, and early days, and I dont think a key part driving the market." Walmart and Amazon are evolving efforts in last-mile delivery and drone investment, Alphabet has its Wing business, but nothing is yet at scale today which solves all of the problems across rural, suburban and urban environments. Chinese autonomous air mobility company EHang is already doing tourist flights that Anderson describes as "very impressive" from a technology and safety perspective, but in this case, the regulation makes the competitive threat non-existent compared to DJI, which for other reasons remains highly scrutinized by the U.S. government. Commercial autonomous air mobility will evolve on a nation-by-nation certification basis, and unlike DJI drones taking over consumer markets around the world, EHang wont be certified in the U.S. easily. CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2022 Disruptor 50 list, our annual look at private innovators using breakthrough technology to transform industries and become the next generation of great public companies.
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