{"id":97944,"date":"2019-10-29T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/ubers-new-delivery-drone-absolutely-reeks-of-vaporware-updated"},"modified":"2019-10-29T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T14:03:11","slug":"ubers-new-delivery-drone-absolutely-reeks-of-vaporware-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/ubers-new-delivery-drone-absolutely-reeks-of-vaporware-updated","title":{"rendered":"Uber\u2019s New Delivery Drone Absolutely Reeks of Vaporware [Updated]"},"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\/4ooGqCFIWc8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Uber has announced it\u2019s developing a new drone it hopes to use for Uber Eats deliveries one day. Eric Allison, the head of Uber Elevate, talked about the new drone in Detroit yesterday at the <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bizcarson\/2019\/10\/28\/first-look-uber-unveils-new-design-for-uber-eats-delivery-drone\/#2411f2fa78f2\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bizcarson\/2019\/10\/28\/first-look-uber-unveils-new-design-for-uber-eats-delivery-drone\/#2411f2fa78f2\">Forbes Under 30 Summit<\/a>. And while the mock-up design looks pretty cool, with rotating wings and six rotors, the details released so far raise some red flags.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bizcarson\/2019\/10\/28\/first-look-uber-unveils-new-design-for-uber-eats-delivery-drone\/#3bdc7a9378f2\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bizcarson\/2019\/10\/28\/first-look-uber-unveils-new-design-for-uber-eats-delivery-drone\/#3bdc7a9378f2\">Forbes<\/a> (emphasis ours):<\/p>\n<blockquote data-type=\"BlockQuote\" class=\"\"><p>The new drone design can carry dinner for up two people and features six rotors, the company says. <strong>Its battery is designed for eight minutes, including loading and unloading<\/strong>, and it can only do relatively short hauls. The drone has a roundtrip range of 12 miles, or<strong> a total flight time of 18 minutes.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber has announced it\u2019s developing a new drone it hopes to use for Uber Eats deliveries one day. Eric Allison, the head of Uber Elevate, talked about the new drone in Detroit yesterday at the Forbes Under 30 Summit. And while the mock-up design looks pretty cool, with rotating wings and six rotors, the details [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97944","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}