Uber Imagines a Jetsons-Like Future Filled with On-Demand Flying Cars Anthony Cuthbertson - Newsweek
go to original October 28, 2016

Guess What Uber's Promising Now: Flying Cars (WIRED)

By the year 2030, the skies will be filled with autonomous drones capable of picking you up and carrying you above the traffic to your destination - at least if Uber has its way.

Jeff Holden, Uber’s chief product officer, detailed his futuristic vision of an “Elevate” network of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft in a 99-page white paper published this week.

Holden’s paper - which makes Uber’s recent self-driving truck announcement seem rather tame - is not a blueprint for Uber to build these types of vehicles. Rather, it lays out how such a transportation system would look like and how companies could go about building their own VTOL planes. Ultimately, of course, Uber will hope to commercialize these flying cars for its own profit.

The paper imagines a future where a two-hour drive could be reduced to 15 minutes and traditional transportation infrastructure like roads, bridges and tunnels no longer suffer the heavy strains put upon it by today’s ground-based vehicles.

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