Elon Musk Takes a Jab at Uber's Flying Cars Ambitions; Uber CEO Says 'Challenge Accepted'

It'south flying cars vs. tunnels! And Uber vs Elon Musk.

Off late, Uber's made it articulate it wants to bring flying cars to US soon. The CEO Dara Khosrowshahi recently claimed flight taxis will be hither inside the decade. In fact, he thinks information technology'due south a good idea to fly cars instead of earthworks tunnels for Hyperloop. Just Elon Musk begged to differ.

Why do you need to dig tunnels for transportation when you lot tin can fly? – Uber CEO

Musk thinks flying cars are an outlandish idea. Here's what the Tesla CEO tweeted:

If you love drones above your house, you'll really love vast numbers of "cars" flying over your head that are 1000 times bigger and noisier and blow abroad anything that isn't nailed down when they land

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2018

It is worth making a annotation here that Musk didn't mention Uber's flying cars project directly; nevertheless, it'due south quite obvious at this indicate.

The matter did non end there. Khosrowshahi took Musk'south comments as constructive criticism and replied to his tweet.

Claiming accustomed. Improved battery tech (thx 2 @elonmusk) and multiple smaller rotors will exist much more efficient and avoid noise + ecology pollution. https://t.co/563U0RqDYF

— dara khosrowshahi (@dkhos) February 22, 2018

In case you don't know, Uber is planning to launch its showtime flying taxi service in Dallas, Dubai, and Los Angeles in 2020 on a trial ground. Hyperloop, on the other manus, is a vacuum-sealed tube that transports pods of up to speeds of 700 miles per hour. Totally dissimilar ideas but both focus on revolutionizing the mode of transportation. Of course, Uber is non the only company feeling gung-ho about flying cars in the near hereafter.

That being said, Musk isn't entirely confronting aerospace technology. Later on all, he heads SpaceX and is also launching a Tesla Roadster 2 which does 0-60 miles per 60 minutes in simply 1.9 seconds. And surely there were more than a few doubters when Musk announced these innovations, which is why Musk'southward remark seems a niggling strange.

We are fully in the corner of flying cars and promise Uber somehow proves Musk wrong, because let's face it – everyone wants to see a flight car.