· Founder of Tesla Elon Musk told that flying cars would be big and noisy overhead.
While speaking to the students at IIT Delhi on his first visit to India he has taken over as UBER CEO, DARA KHOSROWSAHI took a dig at Elon
Musk's Boring Company, saying, "why dig
tunnels when you can use the air?"
"We like Uber
Air more. We are working to making VTOL [vertical take-off and landing] a
reality in the next 5 - 6 years," he added. "Why dig tunnels when you
can use the air?"
Now Musk is working on building tunnels to connect New York and
Washington DC, is never one to take this things lying down. On Twitter, Musk
came back with reply, tweet "If you love drones above your
house, you'll really love vast numbers of 'cars' flying over your head that are
1000 times bigger and noisier and blow away anything that isn't nailed down
when they land."
Now Uber has a program called Uber" Elevate" that focuses on flying taxis. At UBER's Elevate summit, the company said that they expect to deploy flying taxis by 2020. .
However, Musk also
has a very valid point. it would be significantly bigger than
a personal drone, and consequently louder as well.it may create issues. .
Beyond all this,
there is also another fact that Amazon is looking to the
skies for the expansion of transport business, which might become just as crowded as our roads, as more such projects
take off. Later in the day, Khosrowshahi added that this might happen sooner
than people think.
"We're closer than you think.
The key here is actually battery technology," he said. "The new generation
of batteries is actually going to be light enough and dense enough, to be able
to power rotors that are much smaller than the helicopter rotors that you see,
so you can have vehicles that have, four to eight rotors, each of which because
they're smaller will be much smaller, there will be much less noise pollution,
they will be much quieter and safer as well. We are now actively working on on
the Uber Elevate project, I think we will have vehicles that are flying in five
years, and you will have commercialisation in ten years or sooner."
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