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Uber has hired a former Nasa engineer to help it toresearch flying cars. 优步(Uber)聘请了美国国家航空航天局(NASA)一名前工程师来协助研究飞行汽车。 After more than 30 years at the US space agency,Mark Moore is joining Uber’s Elevate division as itsdirector of engineering for aviation. 在为NASA服务30多年后，马克?摩尔(Mark Moore)加入优步的“提升”(Elevate)部门，担任飞行工程技术总监。 The ride-hailing company first signalled its interest inshort-range “vertical take-off and landing” (VTOL)technology in October, when it published a white paper discussing the potential for “on-demand aviation” to transform the daily commute. 去年10月，这家叫车服务公司首次表现出对于短程“垂直起降”(VTOL)技术的兴趣，当时该公司发表一份白皮书，讨论利用“按需航空服务”转变日常通勤模式的可能性。 Mr Moore’s research has explored how advances in robotics, autonomous systems and electricpropulsion can facilitate new kinds of small aircraft. 摩尔的研究探索了机器人技术、自控系统及电气推进方面的进步如何能够带来新型小型飞行器。 In his LinkedIn profile, Mr Moore said his research into unmanned aerial systems and personalair vehicles had the potential to “facilitate a change in aviation that within the next 20 yearscould be quite breathtaking in terms of impact and market cap”. In a research paper publishedwhile at Nasa, he explained: “A zero emission, highly efficient, highly reliable, ultra-low noiseVTOL capability would be a game changer compared with existing close proximity flightcapabilities, for both unmanned and manned applications.” | 
