Uber Elevate - The future of on-demand urban air transportation by UBER

Really cool idea. Anyone know if this is mostly conceptual at this point or if there's a published timeline on release?

I wonder if Uber will also not cooperate with the law enforcement if you're sexually assaulted in one of their EVTOLS. My guess is that the same policy of corporate greed will apply there too.

"It's not an Electric Helicopter... It's an Electrical Vertical Take-Off and landing vehicle" - Sooo a Helicopter?

The level of detail in this product announcement from Uber is exceptional. Captivating video concept, technical whitepaper, hours of video recordings from their thought-leader summit, and finally an invitation to join the team. Textbook job.

Woah 😳. The idea of this makes me equally anxious and excited.

So, is it time to invest in my pilot’s license or will AI rule the sky?

You just have to be realistic, this will never happen as it would oppress people way to much just like amazon drones delivery imagine millions of drones & planes flying over your head at all time, people are going to get crazy. I much prefer musk vision to go underground an leave a beautiful empty city and sky.

I imagine someday there will be a similar video talking about how great VTOL transportation has been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?ti...

This is going to be great for people who currently fly in helicopters on the regular. Even though it's very cool tech and probably a good business model, it's important call out that 99% of us will not be using this service. Uber can surely lower the current cost of helicopter service substantially, but that's not going to bring the cost down to consumer level or even normal enterprise level. Also, it's much harder to increase the volume of passengers. Cities are only going to put up with a small density of aircraft in the sky. The volume increase will only be enough to allow current helicopter users to fly more often. We should be asking how this tech will change our lives as non-passengers.

Hi there, The idea is really interesing and depends from the states where a driver's license won't work for air travel next year.