{"id":73706,"date":"2017-11-08T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/uber-announces-la-will-be-the-third-city-for-uberair"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:22:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T17:22:58","slug":"uber-announces-la-will-be-the-third-city-for-uberair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/uber-announces-la-will-be-the-third-city-for-uberair","title":{"rendered":"Uber announces LA will be the third city for UberAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uber-announces-la-will-be-the-third-city-for-uberair.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Flying Ubers are coming to LA: Ride-sharing company links with NASA to bring 200mph electric aircraft to the city in 2020 and a flight will cost you the same as a car journey\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Uber\u2019s Chief Product Officer, Jeff Holden, announced the plans at the global Web Summit in Lisbon today.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Holden said: \u2018Technology will allow LA residents to literally fly over the city\u2019s historically bad traffic, giving them time back to use in far more productive ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At scale, we expect UberAIR will perform tens of thousands of flights each day across the city \u2014 at those levels, all the time savings will have a noticeable positive impact on the region\u2019s economy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5061861\/Flying-taxis-coming-LA.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5061861\/Flyin...ng-LA.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Ubers are coming to LA: Ride-sharing company links with NASA to bring 200mph electric aircraft to the city in 2020 and a flight will cost you the same as a car journey\u2026 Uber\u2019s Chief Product Officer, Jeff Holden, announced the plans at the global Web Summit in Lisbon today. Mr Holden said: \u2018Technology will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73706","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}