Joby takes on New York, high-tech dentists, and Trump wants to pardon Ross Ulbricht

It was worth a look. In early October, before taking their crowded subway or train to Grand Central Station, the heart of New York’s population, Earthlings could treat themselves to a dream stop in one of the great halls of the station Joby, a new aeronautical engineering company in California, had installed its masterpiece there for a few days: an electric plane with five seats designed for direct takeoff, capable of reaching by air, at 350 km / h, any urban destination within a kilometer 160. radius.

Reporter from Fast company also hiding in the crowd, to prove that the project is very serious. Delta Airlines, Joby’s partner for two years, hopes, with the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration, to use this flying taxi to transport its customers in less than ten minutes from Manhattan to its destination at Kennedy Airport, a trip that takes more than an hour by road. Uber is also involved and would give its customer file to the startup. As for Toyota, after investing more than $350 million in Joby over the past five years, it announces a new infusion of half a billion dollars. It’s true, we can already surrender