After capturing the roads, taxi aggregator giant Uber is now aiming for skies with its flying taxis.
According to Chief Product Officer Jeff Holden, the company expects to deploy its flying taxis in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Dubai by 2020.
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Uber’s flying taxis will be small, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically, or VTOLs, with zero emissions and quiet enough to operate in cities.
Flying taxis would cut down travel time between San Francisco’s Marina to downtown San Jose to 15 minutes, compared with the more than two hours it takes by road, Uber estimates.