Uber hires an engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center in the United States, to develop flying cars program proposed in 2016. The engineer Mark Moore, from NASA's Langley Research Center published in 2010, a work that speaks about the appearance of electric aircraft that can take off and land like helicopters, but are smaller and quieter.
Moore's research, has convinced the co-founder of Google, Larry Page, to establish and fund two start-ups in Silicon Valley, and Kitty Hawk Aero Zee, to develop the proposed technology engineer. Moore left NASA, where he spent 30 years for joining Uber and he will be working on flying car project, known as Elevate Uber.
Uber hasn't built the flying machine yet. According to the report published in October, the company presented a vision for carriage and identified the technological challenges that would like to find solutions, such as noise, vehicle efficiency and limited duration of the battery.
A Slovak company says that since 2017, will bring the flying machine for sales
The Slovak company announced in a posting on its website that the car called air-mobile, that "within a few seconds turns the car into a plane" using "the existing infrastructure for cars and planes."
The vehicle is powered by gas, and has wings that fold, which allows it to be stored as a machine, although it has about 6 meters. The website shows a video of the company with air mobile 3.0, beginning at a hangar on a highway, sharing the road with conventional machines until it reaches an airstrip. Then opens its wings and fly like any small plane.
Stefan Vadócz, air mobility spokesman said the car's price is not yet determined, but he expects the price to be hundreds of thousands of euros on the border between a sports car and a light aircraft size.
AeroMobil 3.0 - official video
The vehicle has seats for two people, the pilot and passenger and one propeller located in the back of the car. The maximum speed of the car is 160 km / h and can fly 700 km until the tank empties.