Oct 31st 2016
Tech Break 3274
Uber Promises Flying Car Within 10 Years
Alex Davies read the Uber Elevate white paper
Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Alex Davies, transportation reporter for Wired. We've officially got our jetpacks, but what about our flying cars? They've long been the dream of all kinds of techies from researchers at NASA to Google's Larry Page. But according to a new white paper, Uber has a plan to fast forward the future and finally make flying cars a reality. Alex Davies read the Uber Elevate white paper, so all of us don't have to. Davies sheds light on Uber's claim that they will have a network of on-demand, fully electric aircraft that take off and land vertically. What will on-demand aviation look like?
Full episode can be seen at twit.tv/tnt/1631
<p>Bandwidth for TWiT Bits is provided by <a href="https://www.cachefly.com/" target="_blank">CacheFly</a>.</p>