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01-10-2018, 06:42 PM
Here's what Uber for the skies might feel like
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Ride-sharing has disrupted transportation in many cities, and not always for the better. Some surveys show services like Uber and Lyft actually add to the congestion in urban areas, with more cars on the road competing for the same amount of road space.
To solve the problem, many are looking to the skies. After Ehang (http://mashable.com/2016/01/06/ehang-184-drone/) captivated CES two years ago with its passenger drone, Uber put a stake in the clouds by publishing a white paper on airborne mobility solutions — essentially air taxis — in 2017.*
Most famously, Dubai is working with EHang to develop a drone taxi service (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/dubai-autonomous-taxi-service-scheduled/) to take people (and a couple of pieces of luggage) along various fixed routes within the city. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/10/bell-helicopter-passenger-drone/)
More about Ces (http://mashable.com/category/ces/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Uber (http://mashable.com/category/uber/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Air Taxi (http://mashable.com/category/air-taxi/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ces 2018 (http://mashable.com/category/ces-2018/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Passenger Drone (http://mashable.com/category/passenger-drone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/SaCeFLjUbs0
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Ride-sharing has disrupted transportation in many cities, and not always for the better. Some surveys show services like Uber and Lyft actually add to the congestion in urban areas, with more cars on the road competing for the same amount of road space.
To solve the problem, many are looking to the skies. After Ehang (http://mashable.com/2016/01/06/ehang-184-drone/) captivated CES two years ago with its passenger drone, Uber put a stake in the clouds by publishing a white paper on airborne mobility solutions — essentially air taxis — in 2017.*
Most famously, Dubai is working with EHang to develop a drone taxi service (http://mashable.com/2017/06/19/dubai-autonomous-taxi-service-scheduled/) to take people (and a couple of pieces of luggage) along various fixed routes within the city. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/10/bell-helicopter-passenger-drone/)
More about Ces (http://mashable.com/category/ces/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Uber (http://mashable.com/category/uber/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Air Taxi (http://mashable.com/category/air-taxi/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ces 2018 (http://mashable.com/category/ces-2018/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Passenger Drone (http://mashable.com/category/passenger-drone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/SaCeFLjUbs0