Uber lists Japan among 5 candidate sites to test flying taxi

Uber picked the five countries based on such criteria as ... lack of extreme weather

Huh? Have they been to Japan?

Yet you need a drone license here..

Lucky Japan.  And lucky those late investors in Uber (Softbank?  Toyota?) who are watching their money get frittered away on rubbish like this.

Huh? Have they been to Japan?

haha @JonathanJo, you got a point there...lately I feel that the weather in Japan is becoming way worse than the classically destructive earthquakes here...since Japan became strong against earthquakes, the weather is now attempting to kill us all...

Toyota?) who are watching their money get frittered away on rubbish like this.

and everybody was saying Uber didnt stand a chance in Japan, seems a bit different now Toyotas got their back. flying taxi are coming , no they wont be landing on your doorstep anytime soon, theyll probably have special hubs on top of builings where the can take off and land in a controlled environment, trips will likely be within a couple hundred km. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuWOUEFB_IQ

Yet you need a drone license here..

and do you think Toyota will have trouble getting those!?

It means way more regulations again genius

Yet you need a drone license here

No, you don't. To legally fly a drone in Japan you need a drone and a knowledge of the regs.

How flying car will deal with overhead power-line in some city?

It means way more regulations again genius

and how will that hinder Toyota / Uber from starting a fly taxi business, genius

No, you don't. To legally fly a drone in Japan you need a drone and a knowledge of the regs.

oh great somebody who know what there talking about