Posted on 05/24/2018 8:18:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Ride hailing app Uber wants to build flying taxis in France and announced on Thursday it would invest €20 million to develop the project.
The American company made the announcement at the VivaTech technology fair in Paris on Thursday.
It wants to develop an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft in France over the next five years and will throw €20 million at the flying taxi project, known as Uber Elevate.
That will include a new research and development center in Paris, its first technology hub outside of North America. The center will focus entirely on flying cars. […]
Co-organizer of VivaTech, Dara Khosrowshahi, said Uber Elevate wold not likely see the light of day before 2025. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
Seems like it would cost a lot more than $20 million to develop and commercialize this.
I’ll chip in five bucks! Just in case!
So in the next world war flying taxis can take infantrymen to the trenches like early wheeled taxis did in 1914?
Zut alors! What could possibly go wrong?
The next true world war would be over before 90% of the world’s population even hears a sound.
Wouldn’t most muslims prefer flying carpets?
A lot more, but at this point I think Uber is just trying to generate publicity.
Why not get Uber to build an escalator to the moon, while their at it?
You think terrorist crashing trucks into crowds was bad.
Wait till they start crashing Uber flying taxis into buildings.
Mini-9/11’s
Or a great glass elevator, or something. After all, Neil Armstrong found no vermicious knids up there, so it was obviously faked.
hey goober, why don’t you work on making the self driving ones on the ground work. I mean, they are killing people and all.
“Seems like it would cost a lot more than $20 million to develop and commercialize this.”
Oh goodie, Muslim surface to air missile target practice targets. ...”Pull!”
“Uber to invest €20 million in building flying taxis in France”
sure, why not? after all, their driverless uber car project’s not working out too well so far ...
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