{"id":78544,"date":"2018-05-09T11:27:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/uber-shows-off-its-vision-for-future-flying-taxi"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:27:17","slug":"uber-shows-off-its-vision-for-future-flying-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/uber-shows-off-its-vision-for-future-flying-taxi","title":{"rendered":"Uber shows off its vision for future \u2018flying taxi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uber-shows-off-its-vision-for-future-flying-taxi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a bird, nor a plane. But Uber\u2019s new prototype vehicle unveiled Tuesday shows off its vision of the future of transportation\u2014a \u201cflying taxi\u201d that aims to alleviate urban congestion.<\/p>\n<p>A model of Uber\u2019s electric vertical take-off and landing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/vehicle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vehicle<\/a> concept (eVTOL)\u2014a cross between a helicopter and a drone\u2014was displayed at the second annual Uber Elevate Summit in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to radically improve global mobility,\u201d said Uber Aviation product chief Nikhil Goel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-uber-vision-future-taxi.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-uber-vision-future-taxi.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not a bird, nor a plane. But Uber\u2019s new prototype vehicle unveiled Tuesday shows off its vision of the future of transportation\u2014a \u201cflying taxi\u201d that aims to alleviate urban congestion. A model of Uber\u2019s electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle concept (eVTOL)\u2014a cross between a helicopter and a drone\u2014was displayed at the second annual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78544","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}