Uber recently published a 99-page report that claims to create a network called "Elevate," an on-demand service network of electric flying cars that can take off and land vertically. It takes only 15 minutes to fly from San Francisco to Silicon Valley, and the price is similar to that of the road car service UberX. Of course, all this is still only theory. In the report, Uber used a more exciting statement: in the future, it can lift you above the traffic and roads that are congested.
In the aircraft and automotive industries, such dreams have existed for a long time. The so-called flying car means that it can fly in the air or on land, and can be transformed into a plane from a road car.
As early as 1926, the concept of a flying car appeared on the cover of Popular Science. Henry Ford believes this technology will appear around 1940. Supporters in Silicon Valley suggest that modern technology companies can produce similar cars without developing useless apps and on-demand services.
Now Uber has joined in, it has to turn dreams into reality. Uber does not intend to manufacture and design similar cars. It just wants to stimulate market design and manufacturing. It hopes that private companies and governments can work together to solve technical, regulatory, and infrastructure problems, including battery density, flight certification, air traffic control, etc. problem.
Of course, Uber is not the first one to be interested in flying cars.
Last week (October 22, 2016), the local media in the Bay Area of ​​California, the San Jose Mercury News, received news clues from residents of Hollister, reporting suspected Google founder Larry Page. A company funded to test the news of "flying cars" over the area.
Google founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page invested in two startups early in the year, Zee Aero and Kitty Hawk, both of which are developing flying cars.
Flying car startup Zee Aero is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., in the same city as Alphabet headquarters, and not far from Google headquarters. It is a startup company founded in 2010 with approximately 150 employees. Alphabet CEO Larry Page has invested more than $100 million in the company, and the company is testing a prototype of a flying car to develop two flying cars. One is close to a small aircraft and the other is equipped with a propeller on the side. According to a patent file submitted by Zee Aero in 2012, the flying car can rise and fall vertically.
During the six years since its founding, Zee.Aero has hired many talented young aerospace designers, software engineers, and experts in engine and battery hardware. They come from well-known companies or institutions such as SpaceX, NASA and Boeing, all pursuing a common goal - "We are changing the personal aviation industry", which is also a sentence written on the Zee.Aero website.
Patent application file submitted by Zee.Aero
In the beginning, Zee.Aero was led by Stanford Aerospace Professor Crewe. He wrote the company's first patent for Zee.Aero, patent No. 9242738, which shows an aircraft design with only one seat in the aircraft, a strange look and a narrow fuselage. Behind the cockpit, horizontal propellers are placed on either side of the fuselage, responsible for the vertical takeoff and landing of the aircraft. There is also a wing at the rear with two propellers on it to increase forward thrust.
It took Zee.Aero several years to develop a similar design. Reporters and enthusiasts took pictures of some of the aircraft, which was a small version of the aircraft, controlled by a computer and parked in the parking lot of the 2700 Broderick Way. The prototype equipment is not big enough to carry people.
According to three former employees of Zee.Aero, the company found that this design may not be the best. For the progress of development, Page is not very satisfied. In 2015, Crewe returned to Stanford to teach full-time, while continuing to serve as a consultant for Zee.Aero, titled "Chief Scientist", and former chief engineer Zee.Aero became CEO. Under Allison's leadership, the company is looking for a more succinct, more traditional design, and now it has begun to become a reality at the Hollister Municipal airport.
The company has little to do with Google or Alphabet, but this company is another dream of Larry Page. He sets the Zee Aero office on the first floor of the company's headquarters, and the second floor is completely private to Larry Page. Space, with lots of expensive art and sports equipment, Zee Aero just knows that there is a billionaire upstairs, but I don't know who it is.
Kitty Hawk's work is independent of Zee.Aero, founded in 2015, with more than a dozen engineers, many from Zee Aero. But Page's investment in Kitty Hawk is clearly also intended to develop and release cars. According to commercial data submitted in 2015, the president of Kitty Hawk is SebasTIan Thrun, the initiator of Google's self-driving car project and the founder of Google X's R&D department, known as Google. The father of a man driving a car.
The flying car developed by Larry Page's Kitty Hawk is more like a four-axis drone. The team members are from AeroVelo, which won the Sikorsky Award in 2013 for a helicopter product and received a $250,000 prize.
Larry Page and Alphabet are reluctant to reveal too much about Zee Aero and Kitty Hawk, and it looks more like Larry Pege's investment in personal interests.
According to industry insiders, it is still unclear whether Page will invest in the future development of personal aircraft, or it is just a billionaire looking for a fun new toy.
"Flying to the sky" still takes time
Although Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk have not disclosed their specific targets and timetables to the outside world, the products of the two companies must be truly "flying" in view of the fact that "automobiles" must be approved by the aviation management department and may cause major changes in relevant regulations. It will take time to go to heaven.
At present, more than ten companies around the world are developing prototypes of flying cars, including startups and aerospace giants. Mark Moore, a NASA aviation engineer, said: "In the past five years, aerospace technology has made tremendous progress, and the speed of development in the next five to ten years will be unbelievable."
In addition to these companies, there has been a large wave of companies developing flying cars on the road.
TF-X developed by Terrafugia is expected to be available in 2026 
Volocopt developed by E-volo, expected to be available in 2016 
AeroMobil 3.0, developed by AeroMobil, is expected to be available in 2018-2019 
Moller Skycar by Moller InternaTIonal 
Lilium Jet developed by Lilium AviaTIon, expected to be launched in 2018 
Joby developed by Joby AviaTIon, expected to be listed in 2016
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