Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Uber Hopes To Have Flying Taxis Over DFW By 2020

Ridesharing service Uber said again on Wednesday that it hopes to start flying its flying taxis to Dallas-Fort Worth by 2020, as it announced a deal with the U.S. National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) to developer software that would help support those flying taxi efforts. Uber--which said earlier this year that it was working with transportation authorities in Dallas-Fort Worth on the flying taxi effort--says it is using vertical-take-off-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft developed by other companies to speed people across cities across the U.S. Dallas-Fort Worth was the first market in the nation where Uber announced it would launch the service, which will be called Uber Elevate.