to ease urban congestion

Courtesy: Hyundai

(SOUNDBITE) (English) HYUNDAI'S HEAD OF URBAN AIR MOBILITY, JAIWON SHIN, SAYING:

"Now we're looking at the dawn of a completely new era that opens the skies above our cities. By point-to-point air travel, we can reduce travel times drastically by averting ground traffic congestion. Also, we will be able to fly on demand. Just imagine that, rather than fitting our lives around an airline's schedule. I like to call this new era an era of 'liberation from gridlock' and the 'democratization of flight'."

The concept was unveiled

at the CES tech show

The aircraft is designed for trips

up to 60 miles long

at a maximum speed of 180 mph

Hyundai said it will join Uber

to develop electric air taxis

Uber has pledged to launch

commercial urban flights by 2023