Ford is the latest major company to jump on the driverless vehicles bandwagon announcing that it intends to develop fully autonomous vehicles. That announcement is just the latest in the long string of big companies interested in driverless tech from Tesla and Google to Uber and (rumored) Apple. In that context Ford’s announcement is not much of a surprise and was largely greeted with a collective yawn by Wall Street. To really get investors’ attention these days you need to do something truly revolutionary – perhaps something like what Airbus is proposing. European aviation giant Airbus is Boeing’s biggest competitor and a major manufacturer of planes. Now the aerospace giant is reportedly working on a flying driverless taxi that you can summon via an app on your smartphone. The concept itself is extraordinary enough – but Airbus’ equally extraordinary timeline shows that it’s serious. The company expects […]