The Commute of the Future Will Be Driverless, Flying and Electric
And four other important things we learned this week.
Five Things We Learned This Week
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Disruption Is Coming. The Question Is When.
We’re not whizzing around in flying taxis just yet. But this week, we found several of Silicon Valley’s biggest risk takers getting serious about the technology. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been working on a secret airship that looks like a zeppelin. His partner, Larry Page, also has a secret vehicle project: flying cars that can take off and land vertically. Uber said it is working with officials in Dallas-Fort Worth and Dubai to test flying taxis by 2020, as well as building plans for an electric charging network. Even major oil companies are forecasting and planning for the rise of the electric vehicle.