Uber has announced plans to create and test a network of flying cars in Dallas and Dubai by 2020. Its proposed service, Uber Air, will be developed with aviation companies and allow passengers to order flying taxis in the same way users of the app order car rides today. What’s more, the company claims the service will be initially as cheap – and later cheaper – than ordering a traditional non-flying Uber car.
Remember that bit in Grease where, after one hour and fifty minutes of theatrical-but-none-the-less-reality-based high school hijinks, Sandy and Danny use the fading beats of “We Go Together” to take to the skies in an auto-matic, system-matic, and hydroooooo-matic Greased Lightning? Yeah, that. That is Uber’s announcement.
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