Uber Plans 2020 VTOL Air Taxi Launch In Dallas And Dubai

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/26/2017 at 15:18 • Filed to: planelopnik

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What could possibly go wrong?

Ride-hailing giant Uber planes to launch in-demand electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (e-VTOL) air-taxi service in Dallas and Dubai in 2020, and has selected partners for development of the technology and infrastructure.

Uber has partnered with Aurora Flight Sciences, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , Mooney and Slovenia’s Pipistrel Aircraft. The companies are working in concepts and technologies for electric VTOL aircraft, Jeff Holden, Uber’s chief product officer, said.

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CB > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 15:19

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Sure, if my Uber driver is going to kill me, might as well make it a flying spectacle.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > CB 04/26/2017 at 15:22

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RIP CB

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 15:26

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It’s uber, so of course everything will work perfectly.

xyzabc > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 15:26

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FUBAR?

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 15:28

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My friend who used to live in Dubai claims they already have an “Uber Gold” service which is a helicopter, so I don’t know what the difference between that and this is.

ttyymmnn > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 04/26/2017 at 15:31

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The difference:

The aircraft uses autonomous flight guidance technology from Aurora’s Centaur optionally piloted aircraft, and the perception and collision avoidance system developed under the U.S. Office Of Naval Research’s AACUS program.

Holden said UberAIR operations will begin with piloted aircraft, but move over time to optionally piloted and eventually fully autonomous flights. Uber’s initial goal is for flying in its e-VTOL aircraft to be twice as safe as driving a car, he said.

garagemonkee > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 15:40

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who they stealing the technology from this time?

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 15:48

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NOPE

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 04/26/2017 at 15:50

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That’s a whole bucket of NOPE.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 15:52

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There isn’t enough time in the day for me to list all of the NOPE. It’s just ALL OF THE NOPE.

user314 > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 15:53

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So Uber wants to, in less than three years mind you, develop and receive certification for an electric VTOL craft?

PatBateman > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 15:54

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I approve of this being used in Dallas.

There are too many pretentious people in this world, and the herd needs to be culled.

ttyymmnn > user314 04/26/2017 at 15:57

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Don’t worry. Trump will have abolished the FAA by then.

LongbowMkII > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 16:02

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Well it won’t work because one of those areas is a barren desert filled with oil-rich religious fanatics surrounded by ignored abject poverty and the other is in the Middle East.

ttyymmnn > LongbowMkII 04/26/2017 at 16:02

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#COTD

Die-Trying > LongbowMkII 04/26/2017 at 16:06

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would that be the middle eastern part of Texas?......

haveacarortwoorthree2 > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 16:07

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Does Uber realize that us Texans likely will think those things are the precursor to an invasion and thus will likely shoot them down on the spot?

haveacarortwoorthree2 > PatBateman 04/26/2017 at 16:08

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Then you need to redirect them to NYC and LA first!

user314 > WilliamsSW 04/26/2017 at 16:09

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WilliamsSW > user314 04/26/2017 at 16:12

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As I typed my original response, I read it in Lana Kane’s voice - that one was a must include. The rest is a welcome bonus-

Rico > LongbowMkII 04/26/2017 at 16:14

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Damn that was ice cold

WilliamsSW > haveacarortwoorthree2 04/26/2017 at 16:15

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Like they’d care? Guessing that Uber will ensure these pods at double their cost, and ‘let the free market decide’.

PatBateman > haveacarortwoorthree2 04/26/2017 at 16:17

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No sir. Dallas has a huge DB concentration per capita. When I hear about people going from out of state to Dallas, I ask them to please not judge my grand state by that place.

haveacarortwoorthree2 > PatBateman 04/26/2017 at 16:24

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Maybe I’m too old to run into them nowadays then, but I always found Houston to have a helluva lot more pretentious people than Dallas. Never lived anywhere else where who your parents are and where you went to school was more important.

user314 > WilliamsSW 04/26/2017 at 16:26

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I can’t access photobucket at work, or I’d have the rest of my NOPE arsenal, including the atomic NOPE cannon, and the SLNM.

user314 > ttyymmnn 04/26/2017 at 16:30

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This is then an ULCC of nope, I think.

Seriously, don’t click if you have insect/arachnid/arthropod issues.

PatBateman > haveacarortwoorthree2 04/26/2017 at 16:31

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Certain parts of Houston are like that (Innerloop snobs are the worst), but Dallas pretentiousness is on par with LA. Debutantes, society, and SMU for their finishing school.  

ttyymmnn > user314 04/26/2017 at 16:39

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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > haveacarortwoorthree2 04/26/2017 at 23:38

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one... two at at a time. can’t implement everywhere or they’ll catch on.

Sixy > LongbowMkII 04/27/2017 at 15:21

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Except Dallas trends center-left and is nowhere near a desert.