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gaius | karma 35963 | avg karma 2.51 2018-02-26 06:18:02+00:00 | [–] update item

Has anyone done a serious analysis of the scalability of air taxis

You mean... helicopters? Because they already exist and have limited use cases.

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Eridrus | karma 5186 | avg karma 2.06 2018-02-26 14:14:23+00:00 | [–] similar comments

No, I mean the self-flying electric vertical takeoff drones people are building that I'm pretty sure the GP was talking about, eg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4444874/Uber-...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/1/16961688/airbus-vahana-evt...

http://www.ibtimes.com/google-founder-larry-page-funding-fly...

Etc

I don't know how seriously to take all these projects, but they are clearly quite different to helicopters.

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