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Here's Uber's flying taxi prototype

May 8, 2018

Uber is still dealing with the fallout from a deadly accident involving one of its autonomous cars, but that’s not stopping the company from moving on to the next transportation innovation.

Ahead of its Uber Elevate conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, Uber shared a prototype of its “flying taxi” with CBS This Morning

“We think cities are going to go vertical in terms of transportation,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told CBS. “We want to make that a reality.”

Uber showed CBS a prototype of the vehicle, which looks more like an airplane-like drone than a flying car. It runs on electricity, and has several stacked propellers that allow for both a vertical lift and a forward thrust. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Here's Uber's flying taxi prototype

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