Uber has gotten a lot of media attention for its experiments with autonomous cars, and now it’s ready to explore the potential of moving people around urban areas using electric-powered VTOL aircraft, creating a new project called Uber Elevate. NASA engineer Mark Moore, who has been with the agency for nearly 30 years, has been hired to lead Uber’s effort, Moore said this week. “My position at Uber will be to knock down the barriers,” Moore told AVweb in an email on Tuesday. “Key among the goals is to achieve at least a 10 to 15 dB reduction in community noise from what helicopters achieve today Â… Also achieving at least an automobile level of safety right from the start.”
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