Flying taxi prototype presented by Uber in Melbourne.
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February 11, 2021
"This is a decade that will see many leaps forward for our industry: on the one hand the environmental challenge and the energy transition, on the other the applications that the world of transport can imagine, including for example cars that fly, which whatever science fiction movie of the 1900s he imagined would come much, much earlier. "
Thus John Elkann, president of Stellantis and Ferrari, in an interview that concludes the first season of the Italian Tech Speak, the free audio-video podcast for dissemination on innovation issues.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, and Elon Musk, creator of Tesla, are two of the most famous tech entrepreneurs in the world, Elkann points out.
They are "extremely curious people - he observes - who have an enormous desire to know. What distinguishes them from others, but unites them, is certainly the desire to solve very complicated problems: this can be seen in the conquest of space they are carrying out, certainly a passion that comes from childhood, but also from the conviction of how important it will be for all of us to be able to reduce the cost of access to space ".
In November 2017, Uber began testing for a 'flying car' service in Los Angeles, announcing the first demonstration flights in 2020. In June 2019, the company then chose Melbourne as its pilot city for the launch of Uber Air, which is part of the aviation project called 'Elevate', and outlines plans for market launch starting in 2023. It is planned to build a network of small electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft, accommodating up to 4 people to share air travel in densely populated urban areas.