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On November 8 this year, Uber and NASA signed an agreement on cooperation in the creation of flying taxis. NASA in this case necessary to ensure not only effective but also safe control systems for hundreds, and in the future, possibly thousands cars flying over the largest US cities.
Uber plans to create aircraft with aircraft companies, say Embraer or Aurora Flight Sciences, whose participation in this grandiose project considered primarily because they have certain groundwork in creating something similar. The main condition for creating such taxis are the presence of electric traction, systems vertical take-off and landing, as well as minimal noise.
Landing areas for commercial aircraft Roofs of skyscrapers of megacities will serve. By the way, the first the city that will take air taxis will be Los Angeles. That’s what says Uber’s chief product officer, Jeff Holden:
The first test trials of flying taxis will begin in Los Angeles in 2020, however, as a commercial project, urban aircraft will begin to function a little later, since about 2023. By 2028, when this metropolis will host the Olympic Games, with this unique fans from all over the world will be able to get acquainted with the service. TO this time, UberAIR taxis will make tens of thousands of flights to day – in the city and its environs. How expensive will it be taxi, judge for yourself: today from the suburbs to the center of Los Angeles can be reached by car at best in 2 hours by paying 110 dollars. An air taxi will cover this distance guaranteed for 10-15 minutes, requiring $ 129 for his service. Even that is very profitable, although such a high price, as our say development economists, caused by the need to create infrastructure of this unique transport. Further similar the route to UberAIR will cost no more than $ 50.
According to many analysts and economists, the project is quite viable, while noting that Uber Technologies Inc is taken only for the most profitable and promising of them, so no no doubt that flying taxis over the city Los Angeles will appear on schedule. And there, you look, and in others cities, other countries this aerial will begin to develop commercial industry. UberAIR taxis will take 4 passengers, developing a flight speed of over 300 kilometers per hour. initially pilots will manage them, but in the future they will become unmanned taxi vehicles, which, according to Uber developers, significantly reduce the cost of flights and minimize possible accidents, say, collisions in the air.
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