I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.
Armstrong Economics- Pilotless Air Taxis Have Arrived
EHang’s EH216-S is a two-seat electric drone that can travel at a top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h) over a range of 18.6 miles (30 km). Heyi Aviation has a similar model as well that is meant for “low-altitude economy” flights. Initial operations will be restricted to closed-loop routes that land and takeoff at the same location.
The UAE is also piloting air taxis. The Emerging New World speaks Arab and Mandarin.
Then you should emigrate to one of those places.
For real though. The UAE is looking better and better.
I’m sure it’ll be great, right up until a badly maintained air taxi falls out of the sky onto you.
Then you’ll get to experience the World Class UAE hospitals. Or possibly the World Class funeral services.
There will be many firsts. First Air Taxi to go down in a Sand Storm. First Air Taxi to hit High Voltage Powerline. First Air Taxi to hit burj khalifa, First Air Taxi to collide with a passenger plane, first air taxi to be used as a flying bomb.. etc.
Hurry the fck up and go, Idiot.
They’ll throttle your on-line presence quicker than shit through a goose.
Hopefully they’ll lop your swollen head off as a bonus.
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. People like you caused this mess and now that you have your nirvana you want to leave. Jerk off.
I didn’t cause this. Heck I voted for Ignatieff because I knew Harper would blow it.
Don’t worry I’ll return once The Great Replacement makes Canada (and America) Great (Again).
I’ll kick in some rubbles. Nothing but first class to the shit hole countries that he respects and admires. Plus he’ll be far away from orange man.
I love how the flight plan is centrally controlled.
(No, I really don’t. That was sarcasm.)
If you really wanted to control mobility, just make sure you implement these “air taxis” throughout the country. Then all you need to do is have central control take over your vehicle, and… well, you can imagine the rest…
–the REAL fc.
Government Announcement” “Attention passenger due to your low credit score, destination has been diverted to Xinjang Organ Harvesting Facility No. 3”
MAID is far cheaper.
Electric—- check
Made in China—-check
Controlled by server farm with inadequate security protocol— check
Sharing a ride with morbidly obese passenger— check
Can travel 80mph in an urban setting— check
Ill behaved youth factor with applicable projectiles— check
previously unconsidered weather event now front and center (wind, freezing, heavy rain) —-check
Nice…let’s go for it. And, if things work out the way I expect, then MAID has a brand new protocol.
There have been schemes for unmanned, battery-operated passenger aircraft (air taxis) in the US, Europe, and the UK. I dealt with a couple of those startups when selling ground control stations for BVLOS UAS.
They were all sadly puzzled at the reluctance of civil aviation authorities like the FAA to embrace these things, and somehow couldn’t visualize the fallout (both literal and figurative) if one of these things collided with an office tower or a manned helicopter. They were never fully funded, but somehow found enough investment to build prototypes before fading away.
China, with its almost comical disregard for safety seems like the natural place for this kind of technology to first be implemented, but if and when something goes wrong, they may not be completely transparent in reporting on it.
So they have ironed out all the problems with driverless cars already?
I should sue.
0.1 MJ/kg. Surely, you can’t be serious.
Lawyers and insurance companies killed the private aviation industry. We could have been flying everywhere 30 years ago.
Good luck with drones.
No surprise this is starting up in China. Perfect thing to make China look super advanced, super science, and all that great stuff. Un-brain approves! Great idea.
And if (when!) one of the air taxis inevitably crashes, they’ll just put up some blue tarps around the accident site and pretend it never happened.
What air taxis? What crash? You crazy, round eye! Go to jail!
Gosh when until you see what happens when one of the ‘ground taxis’ crashes!
At the risk of feeding this troll I will now point out that driverless cars (of which I am not a fan) crash in two (2) dimensions.
Pilotless aircraft crash in three (3) dimensions.
Always remember Un-brain, it isn’t the fall that hurts. It’s the sudden stop at the bottom.
I’m sure you felt smart when you typed that but I assure it was dumb. A lot of car crashes occur because of collisions with other cars, which flying cars won’t have to worry about as much (though they will need some air traffic control). This is happening.
“I’m sure you felt smart when you typed that but I assure it was dumb.”
I’m not reassured with your assurances. In fact, your last post sounded pretty unintelligent. You’re smarter than that. You’d have to be.
There’s nothing I get anxious about than having someone else do my “driving/flying” for me, and before you respond, yes, I do get anxious when I board a plane, but I have faith that the person flying that tube with wings knows what they’re doing. I have to have that kind of faith. I really don’t have much of a choice.
So imagine how nervous I will get when that other “person” is a machine.
–the REAL fc.
Comedian Quinn Dale:
“If you see a black dude coming towards you on the sidewalk, chances are he’s just going to pass on by.
But if you see an Asian coming towards you on the sidewalk, chances are he’s driving.”
Good for the Chinese to realize their shortcomings.
I can imagine…a fleet of modified Chinese container ships, off the west coast (or Tiawan), each carrying hundreds of these drones, each with a heavily armed Chinese soldier. Like that will never happen. /s off
L – Pilotless air taxis in China” …? So, how long until Chinese A.I. replaces the untrained, unqualified, indentured servitude(?) of a 1A truck driver imported from South Asia?
Beating the current rate of fatal and/or serious injury collisions might be possible now?
If I can get Carnage into one of those things, how far can I send the Son-of-a-Bitch for about 60 bucks?
100 ft straight up is probably all you need. Then cancel the flight.
l know what it is. its a ‘first shot’ in the war on large public air transport.
first pick off the ones that shy away from this arrangement, then start invoking the ‘splat’ subroutine a cpl times see how many that scares away. then move on to bigger craft until its a regular thing, then wont have to ‘ban’ public air travel, there wont be anyone left but the elites who oddly never seem to meet the same fate.