Regina Barber

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Short Wave · Sky Uber? Air taxis could be here soon · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Right.

And you need to get to LAX.

Yeah.

And now there'll be Uber Air.

Uber Air.

Yeah.

So the app will tell you, hey, there's a vertiport that's only 15 minutes away if you want to take an air taxi.

So you select that.

And while the car is on its way to get you, it tells the system, get the aircraft ready.

There are no TSA lines here, but it's a ride share.

I have so many questions about the safety of this.

But again, in this like futurist scenario, the pilot just takes you where you need to go.

Yeah.

And then eventually they'll be self-driving.

No pilot?

No pilot.

So the Georgia Tech project I mentioned earlier, that's a project to develop autonomous aircraft.

Although those are going to face a lot more hurdles in the regulation process, the people I spoke to told me that that's at least a few years off.

Yeah, I should hope so.

Human beings are very precious cargo.

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