{"id":55892,"date":"2017-04-25T21:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T04:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/heres-what-ubers-air-taxis-may-look-like"},"modified":"2017-04-25T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T04:22:29","slug":"heres-what-ubers-air-taxis-may-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/heres-what-ubers-air-taxis-may-look-like","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what Uber\u2019s air taxis may look like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BSFVvhQP7ws?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in November, we heard about Uber\u2019s plans to add <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/uber-elevate-air-taxi-flying-cars\/46241\/\" target=\"_blank\">flying-car-like air taxis<\/a> to its existing transport system. At the time, it wasn\u2019t clear just what form those vehicles would take. This Tuesday, however, the company announced that it has selected Virginia-based Aurora Flight Sciences as a partner to develop an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for its Uber Elevate Network \u2013 and a functioning model of it has already been flown.<\/p>\n<p>The concept combines technologies from several other projects that Aurora has been working on.<\/p>\n<p>More than 700 New Atlas Plus subscribers read our newsletter and website without ads.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newatlas.com\/uber-aurora-flight-sciences-evtol\/49202\/\">http:\/\/newatlas.com\/uber-aurora-flight-sciences-evtol\/49202\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November, we heard about Uber\u2019s plans to add flying-car-like air taxis to its existing transport system. At the time, it wasn\u2019t clear just what form those vehicles would take. This Tuesday, however, the company announced that it has selected Virginia-based Aurora Flight Sciences as a partner to develop an electric vertical takeoff and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55892","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}