Uber is joining NASA in developing software to manage air taxi control software. The ride sharing firm is working to develop a fleet of battery-powered flying cabs and hopes to test them in several cities in the next two years, with full implementation in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
What could possibly go wrong?
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“Uber partners with NASA ahead of flying taxi initiative,” Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN
“The Anti-Urbanism of UberAir,” Laura Bliss, CityLab
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