Daniel Melendez

🚨 BIG NEWS: $JOBY COMPLETES THE FIRST FULLY AUTONOMOUS CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT IN U.S. HISTORY. I won't surprised if they exapand in cargo, medical logistics, disaster response, defense logistics and remote communities. $JOBY just flew an aircraft 3,199 miles across the United States fully autonomously with zero control inputs from the onboard safety pilot. The aircraft autonomously handled taxiing, takeoff, cruise, route navigation and landing while being supervised remotely from as far as 2,323 miles away. A lot of companies are trying to prove autonomous aircraft can fly. $JOBY is starting to prove autonomous aircraft can actually operate inside the real aviation system. The aircraft crossed mountains, operated around severe weather and thunderstorms, entered busy airports including Phoenix Deer Valley, and landed at airports it had no prior familiarity with. $JOBY already has more than 400 autonomous flights and 800 automated flight hours, and the technology has been used in three major U.S. military exercises. During one Air Force exercise, Joby says its system delivered critical replacement parts 24 hours faster than conventional logistics. And remember, this flight was not even done with Joby’s future air taxi. It was done using a converted Cessna Caravan, meaning Joby is proving the autonomy stack can be integrated onto an already-certified aircraft instead of waiting for an entirely new aircraft ecosystem to exist. That opens another business model. Then eventually autonomous passenger transportation.