India now heading towards 3000 era!!!!

Hi,guyzz.

You will all be going to be amazed that India is gradually moving towards building his own platform and stepping it's foot further towards superpower.

 WHICH IS PROVED BY "FLYING                                             TAXIES"........

This air taxi is declared to be provided by UBER, a very classic company which is now providing excellent transport service.

Uber wants to bring flying taxis to India but its dreams may be far from a possible take-off.

On Aug. 30, the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said it has shortlisted five countries, besides the US, to launch its air taxis: Japan, India, Australia, Brazil, and France.

“Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore are some of the most congested cities in the world, where traveling even a few kilometres can take over an hour,” Uber said in a press release. “Uber Air offers tremendous potential to help create a transportation option that goes over congestion, instead of adding to it.”

Elevate, the company’s aerial taxi play, will let passengers take small aircraft rides with vertical takeoff and landing. Uber plans to launch air taxis in Dallas, Los Angeles, and one international destination by 2023.

Experts believe Indian cities’ mounting road traffic woes make the country a perfect market for Elevate.

Why India?

To begin with, Uber’s options were limited, said Yugal Joshi, vice -president at Texas-based consultancy Everest Group. It has been ousted from China and several southeast Asian nations. It is also facing serious challenges in Europe. India is now its biggest marketoutside the US.

“The ideal launch city for an urban air taxi is a dense metropolitan area where traffic congestion can mean that even distances of 10-15 kilometres can take an hour. Indian cities qualify quite well,” according to Kartik Hosanagar, professor of technology and digital business at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Traffic congestion costs major Indian cities Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Bengaluru Rs1.5 lakh crore($21 billion) each year. Since air taxis will work node-to-node instead of point-to-point, “good use cases might be taking people to airports or industrial complexes in the outskirts of the city,” Hosanagar said. With Uber’s air taxis traveling 150-200 miles per hour, long rides by road can be reduced to just a few minutes 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the ground.

Already, such a service has existed in Bengaluru since March this year, with helicopters slicing the two-hour road commute between Electronic City and Kempegowda International Airport to a mere 15 minutes for Rs4,130 per person. A similar heli-taxi service cut down the four-hour Chandigarh-Shimla journey, too, to just 20 minutes by air.

So, there is clearly a growing appetite for it.

However, Hosanagar and Joshi both agree this isn’t a mass-market offering. “To begin with, high-income people will be the target,” Joshi said. “The eventual segment will depend on pricing and Uber will surely leverage off-peak time to provide these at lower costs to incentivise consumer adoption.”

The short-term fares are likely to be around Rs200 per kilometre. Uber believes this could fall to Rs50, The Economic Times newspaper reported.

While there’s much hoopla around Uber’s announcement, the optimism around its feasibility in India runs low.

Hope ,this excellent dream service will be fully functional in metro cities of INDIA......