Uber Elevate and GE Aviation Team to Enhance Safety for Next-Generation Ridesharing
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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Uber Elevate selected GE Aviation’s Digital Group as an ecosystem partner for their aerial ridesharing program. Initial launch of its Uber Air service is planned for 2023 utilizing electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft in Dallas and Los Angeles. GE Aviation’s Flight Data Monitoring program and industry experience working with some of the world’s largest flight data bench marking programs made this partnership a natural fit for Uber Elevate. “Uber Elevate’s eVTOL ride sharing program is another groundbreaking milestone in aviation history. GE’s patented analytics software fuses meteorological information, navigation data, and terrain mapping to identify safety events and measurements on thousands of flights every day.