Uber Elavate - Taxi Volant

Elevate Fast-Forwarding to a Future of On-Demand Urban Air Transportation October 27, 2016 Introduction Imagine traveling from San Francisco’s Marina to work in downtown San Jose—a drive that would normally occupy the better part of two hours—in only 15 minutes. What if you could save nearly four hours round-trip between São Paulo’s city center and the suburbs in Campinas? Or imagine reducing your 90-plus minute stop-and-go commute from Gurgaon to your office in central New Delhi to a mere six minutes. 1 Every day, millions of hours are wasted on the road worldwide. Last year, the average San 1 Francisco resident spent 230 hours commuting between work and home —that’s half a million 1 hours of productivity lost every single day. In Los Angeles and Sydney, residents spend seven whole working weeks each year commuting, two of which are wasted unproductively stuck in 2 gridlock .In many global megacities, the problem is more severe: the average commute in 3 Mumbai exceedsa staggering 90 minutes.For all of us, that’s less time with family, less time at work growing our economies, more money spent on fuel—and a marked increase in our stress levels: a study in theAmerican Journal of Preventative Medicine, for example, found that those who commute more than 10 miles were at increased odds of elevated blood 4 pressure .