Uber is committed to the sky

3 May 2017

Uber has announced its intention to create by 2020 a flying taxi

The recently passed "Elevate Summit" in Dallas was marked by the fact that Uber had announced the desire to create a flying taxi in the next three years. The impression that the company is going to invest all earnings to money today in a project to create a flying car.

Obviously, flying car, most likely can be used as a ground vehicle, but as soon as there is a need, this machine will be able to soar up into the air by type of helicopter.

There is currently no existing light vehicles with vertical take-off and landing. Given that the car will use taxi service in the city traffic, it is a vertical takeoff would gain in time.

Uber said that the flying vehicle will use the electric range and the ability to carry several passengers. These devices must be light, quiet, environmentally friendly and very safe to work in the city. Because of that, Uber have a lot of work, given the time that they and put.

After such loud statements began to calculate that if Uber is a taxi rank, he would be able to deliver passengers to the specified point, say, at 2 hours, and for some 15 minutes. And the cost of such a flight would amount to $1.32 for every mile of transportation. On the one hand, the price may seem a little high, but on the other – a tremendous time saver.

Uber isn't the only company that wants to transport people to anywhere in the city on electric. Take project from Lilium with its prototype vertical take-off and landing, which can fly 300 km at a speed of 300 km/h on a single charge. In General, the "fights" on this one, yet non-existent market, outlines the serious.

According to representatives of Uber, the first flying taxi will reach the cities of Dallas and Dubai to the year 2020. It turns out that we shared a some two and a half years between the tubes, nerves and the flight with the peace of mind.

It remains for the small – to negotiate with the city to legitimize a new type of vehicle. With the authorities in the two aforementioned cities Uber operates and has achieved considerable success, what will happen to others – is not clear.