{"id":56070,"date":"2017-04-26T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/uber-looks-to-soar-with-flying-taxis-by-2020"},"modified":"2017-04-26T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:30:25","slug":"uber-looks-to-soar-with-flying-taxis-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/uber-looks-to-soar-with-flying-taxis-by-2020","title":{"rendered":"Uber looks to soar with flying taxis by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uber-looks-to-soar-with-flying-taxis-by-2020.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>N\u201d After upending the taxi market with its ride-hailing service, Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] is now aiming for the skies with its flying taxis.<\/p>\n<p>The company expects to deploy its flying taxis in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Dubai by 2020, Chief Product Officer Jeff Holden said at the Uber Elevate Summit in Dallas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Uber\u2019s flying taxis will be small, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically, or VTOLs, with zero emissions and quiet enough to operate in cities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-uber-flyingcars-idUSKBN17R28J?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=58ffc82104d301327be3fa7a&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-uber-flyingcars-idUSKBN17R...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N\u201d After upending the taxi market with its ride-hailing service, Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] is now aiming for the skies with its flying taxis. The company expects to deploy its flying taxis in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Dubai by 2020, Chief Product Officer Jeff Holden said at the Uber Elevate Summit in Dallas on Tuesday. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56070","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}