{"id":30506,"date":"2016-09-26T04:31:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T11:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/uber-researches-vertical-takeoff-planes-for-short-haul-city-rides"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:25:49","slug":"uber-researches-vertical-takeoff-planes-for-short-haul-city-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/uber-researches-vertical-takeoff-planes-for-short-haul-city-rides","title":{"rendered":"Uber researches vertical-takeoff planes for short-haul city rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uber-researches-vertical-takeoff-planes-for-short-haul-city-rides.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it\u2019s your Uber ride arriving to take you to work.<\/p>\n<p>Uber is researching how to offer customers short-haul flights on vertical-takeoff aircraft in future, the ride-hailing company\u2019s Product Head Jeff Holden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2016\/9\/25\/13048094\/uber-vertical-takeoff-aircraft-jeff-holden\" target=\"_blank\" data-component=\"externalLink\">told a a Recode reporter<\/a> on stage at the Nantucket Conference on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Holden said the company is looking into drone-like aircraft, \u201cso we can someday offer our customers as many options as possible to move around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/uk\/news\/uber-researches-vertical-takeoff-planes-for-short-haul-city-rides\/\">http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/uk\/news\/uber-researches-vertical-takeoff...ity-rides\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it\u2019s your Uber ride arriving to take you to work. Uber is researching how to offer customers short-haul flights on vertical-takeoff aircraft in future, the ride-hailing company\u2019s Product Head Jeff Holden told a a Recode reporter on stage at the Nantucket Conference on Sunday. Holden said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60278,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30506\/revisions\/60278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}