Uber’s air taxi revealed at CES 2019 | What The Future

lol the hel­met costs 899 dol­lars… we can buy a motor cycle in india for that price

Obvi­ous­ly none of you fol­low UberAir and the Uber Ele­vate con­fer­ences 🤦🏻‍♂️

So.… The heli­copter from arti­fi­cial intelligence?

These are just pro­to­type not out yet so i’m just here hop­ing all the inven­tions actu­al­ly come out

uber? uber taxi? from news no longer active in south east asia?

Uber air is way more fea­si­ble than the autonomous car. Kids pets cars motor­bikes bicy­cles and every­thing else on the plan­et is on the road. In the air vir­tu­al roads can be cre­at­ed and a autonomous air vehi­cle can and will hap­pen prob­a­bly in 10 years. Not for Uber but for pri­vate com­pa­nies who’s clients can afford $400 per ride my esti­mate for a prof­it mar­gin that works. Upon say­ing that air trav­el even if it is cheap­er than heli­copter rides aka $200 per ride min maybe for a 10 min ride equals $20 a min. So if Uber air is $10 a min at 20 min max is $200 max per ride with cur­rent tech plus a mar­gin of safe­ty. The return on a vehi­cle which cost $300,000 plus 15 rides per $1000 So 15 x 300 or 2250 rides. Then assum­ing charge time after each ride is 1 hr min. Then a tech check 5 min each flight We are talk­ing about a 2 hour per ride or 1 half hr per ride min­i­mum turn­around time. So max rides a day is 10. You will need to have replace­able bat­tery mod­els only because of this fact. With replace­able bat­ter­ies 1 hr turn around time. So maybe 24 rides max in a 24 hr day with no mechan­i­cal down time. 2250 rides / 24 equals 94 days to cov­er the cost of just the vehi­cle, but I doubt it will be more than 12 a day. Add top 2 mechan­ic 1 year wage $100000 and $50000 part time. And how about reg­u­la­to­ry fees tax­es repairs parts insur­ance hous­ing garage charg­ing equip­ment the need of 2 vehi­cle min­i­mum for a busi­ness. I bet 1 year of flight 8000 rides before break even for 1 vehi­cle which can not hap­pen so 2 years before break even. What is the life expectan­cy of the vehi­cle I bet it like 10000 before all major parts need replac­ing. So we need to raise fairs or it will nev­er pay for itself. I would say $160 to make it even and $200 to make it bare­ly prof­itable. Lets see what was the cost of a basic heli­copter ride it is $200. (250,000 pounds for Volo­copter) Lets assume 100 mph max that is a 33 mile lim­i­ta­tion. ( Volo­copter 2X can now fly for 30 min­utes and cov­er about 17 miles) It is too short and land­ing areas will be heav­i­ly reg­u­lat­ed. I doubt you can launch from most areas that heli­copters are allowed for 20 years plus. Insur­ance on a prod­uct with no data ha good luck on insur­ing these things. They will cre­ate a new super pri­vate cor­po­ra­tion who will cre­ate some sort of lim­it­ed lia­bil­i­ty insur­ance and bribe offi­cials to accept it. Then offi­cials will we scared and lim­it its use to un pop­u­lat­ed areas over water / desert etc. All said and done is why it will take a min­i­mum of 10 years for Uber air and I doubt Uber will be around for Uber air. Also just because it can be done does not mean it will be done it has to make eco­nom­ic sense and have con­sis­tent rid­ers. It will take 30 years before the unmanned ride will become cheap enough for peo­ple to do it as a need. Then at that point will the cost of ener­gy stay the same as demand of air borne vehi­cle a com­plete per per­son ener­gy waster be the same? I high­ly doubt it. I see a huge back­lash as ener­gy demands are not met and what will seem like elit­ists rid­ing in waste­ful unmanned air vehi­cles. It will be a very long time indeed before Blade run­ner makes sense. My esti­mate is 25 years for lim­it­ed runs as prices from vehi­cles to mechan­ics to guar­an­teed con­nec­tiv­i­ty back up and every­thing becomes cheap­er it will hap­pen. As of right now no one is doing it as Dubai has announce it in July 2017 you still can not ride one. Good luck to get it up and run­ning you will nev­er make a prof­it unless you can ban oth­ers from open­ing un manned air trav­el. In which case you will in 20 to 25 years.

wtf is this lady on coke?

This looks like the fly­ing machines from Ter­mi­na­tor 2

Is that why Uber pays there dri­vers shit mon­ey so they can put it into there air taxi!

You are all a bunch of frig­gin nay-say­ers holy shit, give tech­nol­o­gy a chance. Things take time to devel­op, per­haps you’ll get to see all this cool stuff in your life­time. I’m sure peo­ple back in the 18th hun­dreds thought that a car could nev­er be cre­at­ed or that a plane could actu­al­ly ever exist but through many tri­als and errors and per­haps even loss, now we have that which was thought to nev­er be pos­si­ble. Who knows what 20–30 years into the future might bring us.

I don’t know why but that thing TERRIFIES ME.

Engi­neer­ing rules

No pilot??? Hell no

Fly­ing cars are coming!

I can see birds hav­ing fun fly­ing through those cir­cu­lar propellers.

I actu­al­ly liked the bike idea

Uber air taxi? don’t get too exit­ed cause it’s for mul­ti mil­lion­aires and bil­lion­aires. Most of us won’t be able to effort. More clas­si­fi­ca­tion of the soci­ety is on its way.

Every­thing shown as CES are gimmicks.

Sketchy