This is what the first Uber air vehicle looks like | L & # 39; innovation

Uber is getting closer and closer to the desire of the world's citizens to be transported in an air vehicle. On Tuesday, the company introduced the first cabin model for this type of vehicle, leaving a first impression of what will be a trip with its Uber Air service.

At the third edition of the Uber Elevate 2019 Summit, the company exhibited the vehicle, which will have a capacity of four people and has eVTOL technology, which allows a vertical takeoff and landing electric.

"In collaboration with Safran Cabin, we have designed for the first time in history an aerial cabin meeting the specific mission of providing shared air transportation via Uber Air," said John Badalamenti, director of Uber Elevate design.

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During the event, participants were able to experience the experience of getting into this vehicle, thanks to a high fidelity virtual reality simulation, created in collaboration with Bipolar Studio.

The company explained that the experience had led Uber Air's future pbadengers to take a trip from Uber Corporate's future offices in Mission Bay, through a hazy sunset and traffic jams in San Francisco, California. , USA), in the vicinity of Santa Clara, where they land at Skytower of Uber.

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Shared air transportation is one of the many mobility options that Uber intends to include in its platform. The company had already put forward its plans with the launch of a reference model for the design of this type of vehicle.

To achieve this prototype, Uber Elevate has started a collaboration with ZEO from Safran Cabin in order to achieve something similar in the interior design of the cabin. "Starting from the customer experience, the design was largely thought from the inside out, but at the same time expandable to different fuselage profiles and carefully designed to enable its subsequent certification. Realizing this design physically in the interactive model of the cabin, combined with the photorealistic experience of virtual reality, has been extremely encouraging, "said Mr. Badalamenti.

Shared air transportation is one of the many mobility options that Uber intends to include in its platform.

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