You order a ride through the app, you get into Uber Black, and this 1 takes you to the helipad, where the electrical air taxi takes you over a trafficked city. This is no longer a imagination from discipline fiction films. Uber and Joby Aviation officially announce the launch of Uber Air.
The task that Silicon Valley has been talking about for years is yet entering the commercial phase. Uber and Joby Aviation (the company specializes in designing electrical vertical take-off and landing aircraft – eVTOL) combined forces to integrate passenger flights with a popular transport application. The first passengers will be blown up over Dubai before the end of this year.
How will this work in practice?
From the user's perspective, the process is to be as simple as ordering a simple journey. After entering the destination in the Uber application, the algorithm will measure whether the way qualifies for flight. If so, the "Uber Air" option will appear on the screen.
The service is multimodal, which means that the application will put the full logistics into 1 booking:
- Ordering a car in the Uber Black standard, which will deliver the passenger to the designated landing ground (vertiport).
- An electrical taxi ride by Joby.
- Receipt from the destination landing site by another Uber and transport to the door itself.
Hard data: 320 km/h above the city
Joby Aviation machines are not drones in which the passenger is solely dependent on algorithms. A licensed pilot will sit behind each of them, and a maximum of 4 people will board.
The plan is based on six tilting rotors, allowing a vertical take-off and landing (as in a helicopter) and a smooth transition to horizontal flight (as in an aircraft). The electrical device speeds up to 320 km/h and offers a scope of 160 kilometres per charging. It was designed with a view to dense urban development, which in practice means a radically reduced sound level against classical helicopters.
First Dubai, then the remainder of the world
Starting in the United arabian Emirates is only the beginning. Both companies have worked together since 2019, and in 2021 Joby took over the full Elevate department owned by Uber.
Currently, Joba machines (which already have over 80,000 km of test flights) are in the final phase of the certification process before the American national Aviation Administration (FAA). As shortly as they have the right approval, Uber Air is expected to grow to further global markets, including fresh York, Los Angeles, Britain and Japan.
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