Boeing's vision of future mainstream travel includes automated uncrewed passenger-carrying electric aircraft operating as taxis, and on Tuesday it released a detailed roadmap on how to get there by 2030.

The concept of operations, or "ConOps," was undertaken as a joint venture with electric autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) enterprise Wisk, a company whose predecessor Zee Aero was backed at founding by Google co-founder Larry Page and now counts Boeing itself among its investors.

Beyond the duo, there were many other partners and collaborators to pitch in at the roadmap, including the FAA, NASA, Boeing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) research subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, AI airspace management provider SkyGrid and more.

The overall vision focuses on the lofty core tenet that the service of these flying taxis should be "safe, affordable, everyday flight for everyone." The service would be available day and night, with visual or instrument meteorological conditions.

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