Volocopter hopes to have air taxis in the sky in five years

In addition to autonomous vehicles crawling the cities without drivers, we should start getting ready for the sky to be taken over by robot chauffeurs. One of the companies working on future air taxis is Germany-based Volocopter. Its 18-rotored human-sized drone took flight at Intel's CES keynote and was on display at the Las Vegas Convention Center. So naturally, we asked to sit in it. Volocopter began its journey to autonomous air taxis in 2013 and has made some impressive progress in the past four years.