Over 600 companies are working on various versions of eVTOL for flight services here on Earth. They promise to improve urban mobility by cutting travel times between JFK and downtown Manhattan and other high traffic areas.
Some of the eVTOLs will be completely pilotless. Super tough to engineer, even tougher to meet the safety and regulatory requirements.
Now, image an eVTOL flying semi-autonomously on Mars — 250 million miles away. NASA/JPL give it some guidance, but then it has to take-off, navigate and land, upright, on a rocky unknown terrain.
https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-contacts-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-after-two-month-silence
Piece of Pie.
