Uber's Mark Moore: "Don't call them flying cars"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mark Moore, head of engineering at Uber Elevate, to talk about flying cars (2:05), starting out at NASA (2:35), why air taxis are inevitable (4:05), why were are in a “Wright Brothers era” of air taxis (6:50), planning to launch in five years (8:05), the gridlock problem (10:35), going pilotless (12:15), taking air taxis to the mass market (15:25), seeding a manufacturing boom (17:20), the pilot shortage (18:20), why our skies are about to get very crowded (20:45), how much it will cost (23:25), and why air taxis could convince us to give up our cars (25:25).

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0:00.0	Yeah.
0:01.9	Technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:04.5	I grew up watching the Jetsons.
0:06.2	It's happening.
0:07.8	Finally.
0:09.0	You know, there's a quote by one of the Wright brothers where he said, I look forward to the day when aviation will be a daily part of people's lives.
0:19.3	When was that?
0:20.2	That was probably 100.
0:21.3	That was like 1907.
0:24.0	Right.
0:24.6	So 100 years later, it's actually happening.
0:31.3	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people
0:38.5	in tech. We have a very Silicon Valley-ish episode today. I sat down with Mark Moore, who spent
0:49.3	30 years, over 30 years at NASA before coming over to Uber, of all places, a couple years ago.
0:54.7	And what he is working on is flying cars.
0:57.9	Well, as you'll see, he doesn't like to call them that.
1:01.1	We'll set on air taxis.
1:03.3	But he reckons that the world of George Jetson, you know, gets up and flies to work in his little pod every morning,
1:10.5	will soon be a reality.
1:13.4	And I know that sounds far-fetched, but Uber is very serious about this.
1:18.3	And they reckon that by 2023, so that's four years from now, four and a half years from now,
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