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Uber airport design inspired by "beehive"

Original title: Uber airport design works announced

At present, Uber electric vertical take-off and landing flying car is advancing, and the design of flying car airport has been announced, let's have a look.

At present, Uber's electric vertical take off and landing vehicle (evtol) project called 'uberair' is in progress, and it plans to show the technology in 2020, and start operating the flying taxi service in 2023.

In order to put flying vehicles into operation, infrastructure is essential. For example, the stop of flying vehicles, we can also call it the 'Airport' of flying vehicles. To this end, Uber launched a design competition. Recently, at Uber's second annual raise conference, six winning architectural design companies presented a design scheme called 'SKYPORT'. Humphreys partners.

Inspired by beehive, the scheme is a bionic design scheme. They believe that the take-off and landing of flying cars is similar to the flight mode in which bees leave and return to their hives. In this design, each platform can carry 900 passengers per hour.