(Bloomberg) -- Uber Technologies Inc. plans to start electric flying-taxi services in Melbourne from 2023, the ride-sharing company's first overseas market for the program.
Test flights of Uber Air, as the company calls it, will start in the Australian city from 2020, Uber said in a statement Wednesday. Melbourne joins Dallas and Los Angeles as pilot locations for the services.
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According to the company's description of Uber Air, passengers will be able to catch flights from building tops in battery-powered aircraft that land and take off like conventional helicopters.
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