Airbus studies self-taxiing airplanes to avoid tarmac collisions

Engineers work on computers on the flight test engineer station at the back of the Airbus Upnext flying truck, a connected truck representing a copy of an Airbus A350 cockpit equipped with artificial intelligence, satellite antennas, GPS, radar and lidar to make taxi and lidar operations autonomous, avoiding collisions on airport tarmacs, that is presented at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups, in Paris, France, May 22, 2024. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq