Somehow this story slipped past me last October, but apparently Uber circulated a whitepaper outlining their plane to bring personal VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft to the masses.
The whitepaper itself is 97 pages long, but a more concise summary is on their Medium channel.
Uber outlines eleven major challenges for bringing VTOL to market at scale:
- Certification
- Batteries
- Efficiency
- Reliability
- Air Traffic Control
- Cost
- Safety
- Noise
- Emissions
- Infrastructure
- Pilots
It’s a brave new world out there.
David Silver 