Uber chief product officer, Mr. Jeff Holden created a buzz at the conference which was held recently, the buzz happened because, he was explaining about the Uber’s idea to launch the self-flying taxis in the future. With this new attempt Uber is giving the new transportation experience to its customers.
The flying cars are expected to have the ability of the takeoff and landing or to land and takeoff vertically same as helicopters. Holden told in an interview that the vertical takeoff and landing vehicles are to be operated by the pilot in the starting stage, and in the future they may aim for the autonomous flying taxis, same like the autonomous taxis. At the same time Uber is testing its autonomous cars …show more content…
Safety is the big issue in the self-driving cars. People fear in situations like, crowd market, bad traffic conditions and in many other situations. Even though the self-driving cars have crash avoidance technology, they are unable to control the car in the situations like, rash driving, jaywalkers and the careless human drivers who doesn’t follow the traffic rules.
The self-flying taxis also have their own risks; the risks with the self-flying taxis are higher than the self-driving taxis. They have the chances of dodging each other, crashing with the tall buildings, with the pedestrians, play ground, schools and many important buildings under them and there are also the chances of malfunctions.
How it can happen?
One ambitious person who works to bring differences in the urban spaces feels that, the above mentioned problems could be solved if people cooperate with the technology, more particularly if the cities are willing to encourage the self-flying vehicles, Whereas if you take the company like Uber, it will try to make the cities more livable and benefit to them as well as the …show more content…
He said that, they drop people at the destination and while returning, they pick up people and also they can pick some goods which they could deliver in the same route to the destination.
He imagines that, autonomous flying taxis can drop the passengers in the top floors of the buildings than landing on the ground. He feels that if this was followed, then these floors could be converted to the shops, restaurants, malls and many more places that are available on the city streets now-a-days.
In future the architects may design the buildings, featuring the flying cars benefits. Uber, then raid –hailing taxi service is seriously planning to develop the self-flying taxis; they are taking new attempts to make fly people to the places wherever they want to travel. Uber’s product head, Mr. Jeff Holdon said that they have the idea to develop the self-flying vehicle same as the helicopters. He also said that, Uber plans to bring this type of planes within 10 years, but this will be the intrusive time