The federal government announced a new pilot program designed to get new kinds of ultralight vehicles and “eVTOLs” up and running around the country—even if they’re not fully FAA-certified.
oh God, please no. We can’t even manage driving on one-way roads and you want us to take to the skies as well.
I’m all for a better way of transporting that might actually get rid of our gridlock areas, but I feel like allowing unlicensed, uncertified VTOLs taxis into our already congested transportation areas is not the solution to this problem.
Adding a third dimension to travel introduces a lot of additional intersections. Once the initial supply and demand wobble irons out, air travel will lead to additional traffic, not less.
It’s a bad idea. And we haven’t even mentioned air and sound pollution yet.
Give it 200ish more years and society might have advanced far enough to have them, but humanity isn’t ready for this yet.
Capitalists pushing the future so they look like visionaries, being completely at the ready to hide the damage, liabilities, deaths, and failures that the technology creates.
oh God, please no. We can’t even manage driving on one-way roads and you want us to take to the skies as well.
I’m all for a better way of transporting that might actually get rid of our gridlock areas, but I feel like allowing unlicensed, uncertified VTOLs taxis into our already congested transportation areas is not the solution to this problem.
Adding a third dimension to travel introduces a lot of additional intersections. Once the initial supply and demand wobble irons out, air travel will lead to additional traffic, not less.
It’s a bad idea. And we haven’t even mentioned air and sound pollution yet.
Give it 200ish more years and society might have advanced far enough to have them, but humanity isn’t ready for this yet.
Capitalists pushing the future so they look like visionaries, being completely at the ready to hide the damage, liabilities, deaths, and failures that the technology creates.
Meet George Jetson!
His boy Elroy!
CRASH!!!
Flintstones, meet the Flintstones…they can’t crash their car into a tree!
That’s very optimistic of you.
The one thing humanity has proved to me in my lifetime is that we will never achieve lofty goals like autonomous flying cars.