Like a scene from “The Jetsons,” commuters in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, may soon climb aboard automated flying taxis, soaring over busy streets<br />and past the desert city’s gleaming skyscrapers, all — quite literally — at the push of a button.<br />The drone “is not just a model but it has really flown in Dubai skies,” Mattar Al Tayer, the director general of Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, said on Monday, adding<br />that the emirate would “spare no effort to launch” autonomous aerial vehicles by July.<br />Passenger drones, capable of carrying a single rider<br />and a small suitcase, will begin buzzing above the emirate as early as July, according to the director of the city’s transportation authority, part of an ambitious plan to increase driverless technology.<br />The craft can carry a 220-pound passenger, according to a promotional video produced by the Roads<br />and Transport Authority, which depicts a man boarding the vessel, buckling into a race car-style harness and tapping his destination on a touch screen before taking off.
