By Alyssa Danigelis, Seeker.com, October 28, 2016
The ride-hailing company proposed an expansion into the sky to carry customers right over gridlock.
The writing is in the sky. Flying electric cars are coming and the ride-sharing company Uber wants to access whole fleets of them.
Instead of getting stuck in maddening traffic for two hours, a commuter in San Francisco could soar through the air from the Marina district to downtown San Jose in a mere 15 minutes — and do it without having to hail a helicopter. That’s the super-futuristic vision that Uber describes in a detailed white paper the company recently published.
