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Flying taxis are on the horizon as aviation soars into a new frontier

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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE

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I'd prefer to take my chances on the ground with the old guy wearing Coke-bottle-bottom like spectacles.

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Been banging on a about this lark for about 20 years now, nowt ever sees to come of it, lol

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This Joby eVTOL accommodates one pilot and four passengers, only. I don't see how it's practical unless you're a wealthy businessman traveling to/from NYC with no luggage or willing to pay to use one of the passenger seats for your luggage. Also, there's no info on how many of its six electric motors it needs to stay airborne, i.e. how many motors it can lose and still operate/land safely in an emergency, or its glide profile if it were to completely lose power. Personally, I'm not ready to trust my life in a heavier-than-air vehicle that's powered by electricity.

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Yes, technologically many things already possible and could be installed immediately. But under realistic practical and cost considerations? There is no chance for flying taxis everywhere, not in shrinking and aging societies in the West and not in their future replacement by very simple, numerous, healthy and archaic societies from Africa and Islamic areas, who will take over Western remains. In short words, the ones don't even have enough normal taxi drivers and the others cannot even spell the words taxi and driver. It all comes a bit too late, the industrialized developed world has made inventions but forgot at the same time to grow and replicate itself.

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Which will arrive first? Flying taxis or fusion power? Both have been "just around the corner" for such a long time. Evidently, a very large corner.

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So they can fly 30 minute battery time ? or one or two hours ? the spec say 200 mph trop speed by 100 mile range = 30 minutes at the max, how long to recharge ?

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A version of this can be flown on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

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I'll be using one of these to fly from my corporate tower the mountain estate. Well, yes, and I'll need to win the lotto.

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Sorry, ".....to the mountain estate."

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Meet George Jetson......

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