Flying Ubers in 2020 So how realistic is Uber’s plan, announced earlier this year, to start offering flying taxi services in Dallas, Dubai and Los Angeles by 2020?

But Ehang Corp, a major Chinese drone maker, has been busy testing its Ehang 184 flying taxis, a drone designed to transport people. It’s now completed more 1,000 test flights with and without ...

Passenger-carrying drones are just the latest step in Dubai's vision for a technologically advanced transportation future.

NASA predicts that what it calls unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, will soon be common in cities. The agency expects some 400,000 commercial and 2 million recreational UAS to be registered by 2020.

The passenger drone must be fully automated, and that is easier than it sounds. Tesla, Google, Uber and other autonomous car makers are within three to five years of commercializing self-driving ...