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Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)By 2023, “Uber” hopes to bring the world to flying taxis. The company introduced new prototypes, representing the future of transport, a kind of combination between helicopter and dron, created in collaboration with NASA and the American Army. One of them, “Uber Air”, will fly with a rise of 300 to 600 meters [...]
One of them, “Uber Air”, will fly from 300 to 600m high. The vehicles will first be piloted by humans, but are later thought to fly independently.
His ambitious plan, “Uber”, first introduced it in 2016, but when it came to putting it into existence, it found that difficulties were not missing.
He is not alone in harboring such ambitions. There are at least 19 companies that have long flirted with the idea of flying machines, and are now trying to put their projects into effect.
These include big names like “Boeing” and “Airbus”, but also “start up” small as “Kity Hawk”, property of “founder Google”, Larry Page.
“Uber” has signed an agreement with NASA on the creation of a new air traffic control system to manage the situation of these vehicles, most likely autonomous, which will fly relatively low.
The experiment will begin as early as 2020, while the first regular services are expected 3 years thereafter.
