Uber plans self-flying drone taxis to beat traffic
27 September 2016 - 09:04
If you summon an Uber in 10 years' time, you will probably get a car that drives itself. But then again, you may not be travelling in a car at all. The taxi-hailing app is working on technology that would allow passenger drones to fly its users short distances around cities. He raises the prospect of a future in which skylines are dotted with Uber aircraft shuttling commuters back and forth.
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