Uber is a ride-sharing service that’s pretty much limited to cars. However it seems that the company thinks that personal transportation could expand beyond cars in the future, which could be a more efficient way of getting around and will let people beat traffic jams. So much so that during the the Nantucket Conference, Uber products head Jeff Holden, revealed the company’s plans for the future.
According to Holden, Uber is looking into alternative forms of transportation, such as vertical takeoff and landing vehicles. This more or less describes how a helicopter would function, but in Uber’s case, they are looking to a plane with multiple rotors, fixed wings, use batteries, and could operate relatively quietly, meaning that the skies won’t be abuzz with rotors and engines.
However before you get too excited, we should note that this is something that Uber is looking into. Whether or not it will be feasible remains to be seen, and whether or not the company decides that it could worth investing in and turning it into an actual service is a different story altogether.
At the same time, this isn’t the first time that we have heard companies express their interest in offering up personal transportation systems like the one Uber is researching, but then just like self-driving cars, laws would have to be made around this new mode of transportation and there will probably be regulatory hurdles to overcome, but it is an interesting idea all the same.
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