The Missing Factor That Could Launch Uber’s Flying Cars in Los Angeles
Uber recently released a video of its concept for a future where city dwellers can avoid congested highways and turn a one-hour commute into a smooth, traffic-free trip that only takes a few minutes. Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk and Zee.Aero also built prototypes for flying cars that could change the nature of transportation.
Likewise, Amazon Prime Air and other drone delivery ventures could radically lower the price of shipping packages and freshly prepared meals.
Drones might soon enable mankind to break free from the constraints of gravity. Yet with all of the milestones achieved, why haven’t these personal flight options become a reality yet? Safe helicopters have been around for decades, and flying cars have been on engineers’ minds for just as long.
Jetpacks were once limited to James Bond films and sci-fi movies, but now they exist, and they work. Within the last couple years, a man flew around the Statue of Liberty with a jetpack and another pilot made his way around a lake in Florida on a hoverboard.
Despite these accomplishments, many aviation companies have failed along the way, and the startup graveyard isn’t getting any smaller. New York Airways once carried passengers in helicopters from the Pan Am skyscraper’s rooftop to nearby airports…
