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Urban Air Mobility 8 years after Uber’s White Paper – Special

A look at the pioneering white paper on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and eVTOL technology perspective, Uber’s “Fast-Forwarding to a Future of On-Demand Urban Air Transportation,” showed us that 8 years later, the industry has made significant progress, while some assumptions proved to be mere fantasy.

We’ve closely examined the statements made by Uber Elevate in 2016 and compared them to the reality of UAM and eVTOL projects in 2024. In 2021, Joby Aviation acquired Uber Elevate.

The AI concept of eVTOL taking off from a helipad in a dense city is not a fantasy anymore. What is then?

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