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Electric Air Taxi Makes Maiden Flight Between Chinese Cities, Cutting Over Two-Hour Car Journey to 20 Mins (www.yicaiglobal.com)
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[โ€“] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're probably right. Some things I would think that would need to be worked out:

  • Could a drone or lasers take them out?
  • Could this open up the skies to private cars and where could they travel?
  • Would there be a sky way? I would think that these would (maybe should) be restricted to over highways.

China might be the best way to test all of this out since they have such control over their citizens, we'll have to wait and see how it plays out.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah very much agree with all that. I'd personally prefer if this sort of tech was restricted to automated taxi services that are highly regulated. Opening it up to private cars sounds like a recipe for disaster. Definitely going to be interesting to follow how China develops this tech.