The Texas hubs are located at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and in the vicinity of downtown Dallas, downtown Fort Worth, UT-Dallas and the city of Frisco. That’s based on an estimated $1.32 cost per passenger mile for early-scale operations, with the cost falling below the variable costs of owning a car over the long term, he said.Ī graphic shown during the Uber Elevate Summit shows the first five hubs anticipated for Dallas-Fort Worth and for Dubai. “We think we can start this for roughly the cost of UberX,” he said, referring to the company’s low-cost ride-sharing service. The network also could be designed to pick up passengers at stops along the way during what he called “multi-mobile trips.” UberAir service could reduce the time required to get between San Jose in California’s Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Marina from two hours to 15 minutes, Holden said. Eventually, the company sees urban aviation as a service that can roll out to the hundreds of cities that Uber serves around the world. The Dallas-Fort Worth region in Texas and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates have been targeted as the pilot cities for the Uber Elevate Network, Holden said. “I hate that term, by the way, but we’ll have to live with it.” “We actually get to live in this era of flying cars,” Jeff Holden, Uber’s chief product officer, said today at the first-ever Uber Elevate Summit in Dallas. Uber has been talking about flying cars for months, but today the ride-sharing company fleshed out its plan to become a flight-sharing company in 2020.

An artist’s conception shows an electric-powered VTOL aircraft taking off from a vertiport on the roof of an office building.

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