How long does it take for your favorite delivery app to get your order to your door? Over 30 minutes at best, we advise. How about a delivery time of 5 minutes? Well, that's the next big thing that Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi promises now. "Press a button and bring food to your door," he told the crowd at the recent Uber Elevate Summit, adding that Uber is already the largest food delivery company in the world.
According to Bloomberg, Uber Technologies Inc. plans to deliver food by drone to San Diego, USA, as part of a major commercial testing program approved by the federal government on Wednesday. The US Department of Transportation has selected 10 state, local and tribal governments in partnership with a handful of large companies, including Uber, Alphabet Inc., FedEx Corp., Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., for the most ambitious testing program. so far for the booming UAV business.
The burger using drones was not the only major plan unveiled at the 2nd annual Uber Elevate Summit, recently completed in Los Angeles. According to the Financial Times, the company has also created a detailed plan to fill the sky with thousands of short-range energy aircraft and announced a partnership with the US aviation authority NASA to develop an air traffic control system urban. As Khosrowshahi said, "Uber can not only be a question of cars, but of mobility".
For the uninitiated, Uber Elevate is a relatively new product that the company invests in exploring the potential of vertical takeoff and landing craft. During Khosrowshahi's first visit to India in February, he told the media that "in the end, not just work on earth but in the sky is to be created, and we believe we can now make multi-rotor vehicles that will do it." Of course, he added that it would take about five years for these vehicles to be available on a pilot basis.
At least, the aviation discussions helped by the impressive list of speakers at the summit and all the data presented to the participants to divert attention from Uber's autonomous car program. The company suspended all North American tests of its autonomous vehicles in March after a car of this type hit and killed a woman crossing the road in Arizona.
The report added that, according to Khosrowshahi, Uber will resume testing in the "coming months" once the National Transportation Safety Board has completed its investigation.
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