Uber hires Nasa engineer to lead flying taxi project

In the race to make a commercially available flying car, Uber has hired Mark Moore, a talented Nasa aircraft engineer. Moore inspired Google's co-founder, Larry Page, to get involved in flying car projects. Uber now hopes that with Moore's help, it will be able to have flying cars ready in'one to three years.' In the race to make a commercially available flying car, Uber has hired Mark Moore, a talented Nasa aircraft engineer. Moore predicts it wont be long before we see several well-engineered flying cars, estimating it will only be'one to three years' Uber has a plan to launch a fleet of electric aircraft for on-demand aviation. The plan, called Uber Elevate, is set to design these'cars' to take off and land vertically, travel 100 miles on a single charge and has set 2021 as the ready date - although Mr Moore predicts it could be even sooner.