Uber has signed a partnership with Nasa to collaborate on the introduction of its taxi drone service. This company hopes to examine this by 2020. The American Space Agency will work on a process of dangerous the traffic of these autonomous machines.

Uber hopes to overpower mid-air way as he did that is known regarding his VTC service. In this, this company is working on a work for UAVs taxis take-off and landing vertically which will carry passengers on short urban routes. At this week's Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, this company announced that it has signed a partnership with NASA to move the project forward.

Using the US channel CNBC which relayed the data, Uber signed a Space Act Agreement while using space agency to build up a process of therapy for the traffic of the autonomous vehicles flying at low altitude. Using the document published by NASA, which we consulted, the agreement amounting to 376,000 dollars (about 323,000 euros for the current price) was signed in January 2017 and definately will expire in January 2022.

Uber wants flying taxis to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics

No specific information and facts is provided towards the work that NASA is going to do and in what way Uber will exploit it due to its service called UberAir (formerly Uber Elevate). But young children and can the fact that US Space Agency is working on fraxel treatments possesses been testing it since last year with drones. The key notion of ​​the concept should be to create geofencing controlled air corridors (in English geofencing) to distribute the several types of drones: leisure, delivery, taxis ...

The stated goal should be to have the UberAir service operational until the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. This company is targeting a first fare for any race which reaches just slightly above an UberX car ride. The very first tests are planned from 2020 in lots of large cities: Los Angeles and Dallas, inside United States, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.