
Laundry services for household items, such as comforters, pillow shams and sleeping bags, are also available. Services for Zips include laundering and pressing any garment for $3.49 tailors and seamstresses available on-site and traditional laundry services, such as washing, folding and bagging clothes. The app will be similar to the Uber Eats platform, Frick said. Both opening dates are set for October.Īccording to Owner Jason Frick, the new locations will open around the same time an app for Zips is introduced to offer services and delivery. William Cannon Drive, Austin, and another near the intersection of Gattis School Road and A.W. Zips Cleaners is opening two new retail locations: one at the Cannon Oaks Shopping Center at 3421 W. It also said it’s working with Hillwood Properties in Dallas-Fort Worth and several other real estate firms in Dubai to choose sites and construct ports for vehicle takeoffs and landings.*Editor's note: ZIPS Cleaners rebranded from ZIPS Dry Cleaning in April and this article has been updated to reflect the change. Uber said Tuesday that it’s teaming up with Aurora Flight Sciences, Pipistrel Aircraft, Embraer SA, Mooney International Corp. In February, the company said it hired Nasa aircraft engineer Mark Moore to work on Uber Elevate, its flying car initiative. Uber first revealed its intentions to build a system of flying cars in a white paper last fall. Airbus SE has proposed several different concepts for vertical takeoff vehicles, and the government of Dubai is joining with China’s EHang to bring closed-top passenger drones to the city.

Kitty Hawk released a video on Monday showing one of its vehicles zooming across a lake, hovering about 15 feet in the air, with a rider astride the top like on a motorcycle. The startups Kitty Hawk and Zee.Aero, which are separate from Alphabet, are racing to build personal aircrafts similar to those Uber has proposed.

Chief executive officer Larry Page funded at least two flying car projects. In addition to being a rival in the courtroom, Alphabet could pose competition in the skies.
