AFP, LAS VEGASHyundai Motor Co on Monday announced it would mass-produce flying cars for Uber Technologies Inc’s aerial rideshare network set to deploy in 2023. The deal announced at the CES in Las Vegas could help Uber, which is working with other aircraft manufacturers, to achieve its goal of deploying air taxi service in a handful of cities by 2023. Hyundai urban air mobility division head Jaiwon Shin said he expects the large-scale manufacturing to keep costs affordable for the aerial systems. “We know how to mass-produce high quality vehicles,” Shin, NASA’s former associate administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, told a news conference at CES. Hyundai is using CES to show the S-A1 model aircraft with a cruising speed up to 290kph.

Source: Taipei Times January 08, 2020 15:33 UTC