Flying Water Taxi

The new line for sea blowers incorporates a doescking system and an application that allows operators to call a bubble taxi to let them know if the environmentally responsible journey would help them buy less fuel and less money. Each user of the doesck uses sun, sea and water to recharge bladders between the company's points of sale. After successfully completing the testing, the bladder should be available for pre-ordering from next November. While regional reporting has highlighted some difficulties in fully supporting the doescks that would serve as taxi turntables, some difficulties have been encountered in fully supporting the doescks that would serve as taxi turntables.

The SeaBubble, a 'flying' water taxi, is tested on the Seine by Paris.

Anne Hidalgo, Paris' Deputy Major, has been looking for a way to make the cityscape of lights brighter and brighter since her inauguration in 2014, and she has done so by promoting the city's garden, transforming a riverfront highway into a pure footpath, and much more. It gave the go-ahead last year for an innovative product that is more in Jetsons-like futureism than in the environmentally sound industry tariff, and last weekend the first prototypes were tested.

Welcome the SeaBubble, a vague egg-shaped, zero-emission car that travels down the Seine and travels through town while you avoid the serious Paris road congestion. Sea Blue is the invention of the Dutch yachting fan Alain Thébault and the Swede Anders Bringdal, and last Wednesday he did his first test run on the Seine.

The SeaBubble would start demonstrating in September if the municipality gave its ultimate consent. The SeaBubble, according to Thébault's website, is an inspiration he's been playing with for over 20 years, influenced by open water moments during which he imagines the opportunities a sailing boat could offer.

"It was my daughter's brainchild that came up with the plan after I recently went from L.A. to Hawaii," Thébault said to The Local. "because they were tired of seeing the contamination in Paris, London and the USA." SeaBubble, with seats for five, consists of light fibreglass and high-density foam composite parts, along with four films fixed to the fuselages to help lessen air resistance, enabling the car to hover two ft above the water while driving.

SeaBubble is sold for 30,000 ($32,788), and Thébault is hoping that it will not only be used as a pay-per-ride water taxi, but will also be taken over by carpool applications like Uber, who have already dipped their toe into the water taxi Croatian water taxi rental business. Hidalgo was an early promoter of the scheme and as such was the first choice to test drive London, a free and non-binding town.

"Had London help us, we probably would have begun out there," Thébault said to the telegraph last year. This does not mean, however, that the SeaBubble will be exclusively in Paris in the coming years. In addition to London, Thébault sees a number of water-poor towns such as Geneva and New York as prospective clients.

If you can cross the Hudson in a flying bladder, who needs the CATH platoon?