Uber Technologies Inc. said Thursday it will choose from five countries including Japan to test its flying taxi services, aiming to launch the commercial operation in 2023.The other candidate countries are Australia, Brazil, France and India, the company said. The selection will be finalized within six months and demonstrator flights are planned to start in 2020.

(Image courtesy of Uber Technologies)Uber picked the five countries based on such criteria as population and lack of extreme weather. The U.S. firm said Japan is one of the countries with the most advanced public transportation syst…READ FULL ARTICLE