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Exclusive: Uber’s New Air Taxi Boss Built Flying Cars For Larry Page

02/05/2018

We chat with aeronautical engineer Eric Allison, who’s leading Uber Elevate’s audacious plan to get flying car service airborne by 2023. No longer a total figment of science fiction, flying taxis are attracting big investment from dozens of companies. One star player is Zee.Aero, a division of Google...
We chat with aeronautical engineer Eric Allison, who’s leading Uber Elevate’s audacious plan to get car service airborne by 2023. No longer a total figment of science fiction, taxis are attracting big investment from dozens of companies. One star player is Zee.Aero, a division of Google co-founder Larry Page‘s company Kitty Hawk. In March, Zee.Aero emerged from semi-stealth mode and flew an electric craft called Cora, which is slated to begin short-trip service in New Zealand in the coming years. Cora can vertically take off and land like a helicopter (a process called VTOL) from mini-airports–and transition to an airplane for power-saving flight.Read Full Story
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