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Safran, Uber Collaborate On eVTOL Cabin

Safran and Uber are displaying a cabin mockup of an urban air taxi concept vehicle this week at NBAA-BACE. Safran and Uber collaborated on the mockup to provide guidance to companies proposing entrants into the emerging eVTOL/urban air mobility/air-taxi market. The mockup was completed by Safran’s cabin products division’s advanced design studio (formerly Zodiac) in Huntington Beach, California, using off-the-shelf interior components in the four-passenger and optional pilot layout.  

“Safran has no interest in doing a vehicle,” said Thomas Lee, Safran v-p of innovation trends. “This is a co-creation effort with Uber to develop a common look-and-feel industrial design and passenger experience. If everyone cooperated and agreed to do that, then you get some economies of scale to bring the production rates up and the costs down, so the whole industry benefits.” 

“We embarked on this competitive design challenge to imagine from the inside out what is fundamentally correct for the passenger experience for aerial ridesharing,” said John Badalamenti, Uber Elevate head of design for advanced programs. “This mockup embodies everything we want to come out of the passenger experience and operations at a skyport.

“This is designed to inspire the industry,” he said. “The amount of detail that was put into this is remarkable, not only in terms of keeping the customer first, but recognizing the constraints of air travel.”