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We are helping these guys, who are funded for concept development: https://hopflyt.com/about/

Interesting stuff for cities.
One of the things I have not seen mentioned in all of the flying car/air taxi scenarios is the issue of NIMBY, or Not In My Back Yard. I have read of corridors or, “freeways in the sky” that flying taxis (or UAS delivery vehicles) will join as they zip across the sky but what about the people living in the neighborhoods underneath those corridors?

People choose to live away from airports for a reason. When the sky above your house in suburbia is a corridor for taxis and commerce, the residents living below will become vocal. If it only exists in cities (people live in urban areas, too) then you’ll have to commute to catch your air taxi.

I’m curious how this will all play out...
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