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Uber CEO Sees Commercialization of Flying Taxis in 5-10 Years (reuters.com)
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said on Tuesday he can see commercialization of the Uber Air flying taxi service happening within five to 10 years. From a report: The U.S. ride-hailing app maker has said it expects flying vehicles to eventually become an affordable method of mass transportation.
This CEO is looking dumber and dumber. First he thinks he can just turn on the profit spigot by twisting a few knobs (I don't think he understands his market or his business) and now he thinks we'll have viable flying cars/taxis in the next 5-10 years when there is practically no working prototype in existence. Right now, in today's world of automobiles, the hottest stuff is electric and self-driving. Electric is getting pretty close to polished, but still has a lot of room for improvement. Autonomous cars haven't even fully exited the birthing canal and are not even in diapers yet. In 5-10 years we still won't see more than 20% of cars on the road being fully electric. We won't be seeing even 5% that are fully autonomous. Maybe, just maybe, in 5-10 years, 5-10 people (out of billions) will have seen a real flying taxi in person.
This guy is totally and completely out of touch with reality. We are a minimum of 50-100 years from seeing flying taxis in any regular fashion and even then, unless some true "hover" /anti-gravity technology comes to be we won't see it on any regular basis ever. 1000s of cars blowing air around, making a ton of noise to fly isn't going to be a solution anyone wants.