Wait. What? These things aren’t flying cars. They just aren’t. Or are they?
This is the little argument I had with myself yesterday while covering the Uber Elevate Summit in Washington, D.C., via remote streaming. During his introduction, Nikhil Goel, Uber’s head of product for Elevate, referred to these new air taxis as flying cars. The first time he said it, I thought it was a slip of the tongue, but the revelation came the third time he used the same term.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/insider/uber-elevate-pick-a-fantasy