Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/100842-new-york-intends-have-first-commercial-electric-air.html
New York intends to have electric air taxis by 2025::undefined
This is going to be really high cost though. If only there was a way to move people en masse around a city, with a reliable and frequent service, funded by tax payer dollars so the cost for an individual is extremely low and affordable…
Alas, no such thing has ever been invented.
Ya, how come NYC never thought of creating the NYC subway system.
NYC has mass transit. Better than most American cities anyway.
This article or whatever is likely just an internet fever dream that will never amount to anything. However it is interesting to imagine a large scale transit system that is entirely point-to-point for everyone. No stations you need to migrate to in order to experience mass transit. No areas it doesn’t go to. No crowded train cars. Mass transit does come with a lot of compromises.
Flying taxis sound dumb to me in practice but in theory it’s the ideal form of mass transit, at least from the perspective of riders’ time and convenience. Maybe someday we’ll have the technology to enable something like this. It won’t be lithium ion powered propeller drones in 2025, though.
Imagine all the problems with cars today.
They’re noisy, use a lot of energy, waste a lot of space, and are prone to fatal accidents.
Now make the car fly. You have just made all of those problems exponentially worse.
I for one would be furious if there were mini-helicopters constantly swooping by my bedroom window in the middle of the night.
It’s always “in a couple of years” with air taxis, isn’t it?
They’re called helicopters and are cost prohibitive.
I feel like you could teach classes in urban planning and city management built entirely around sharing Eric Adams campaign promises and then explaining why they’re the opposite of what anyone should be doing if you want to spend city money to maximize the health/security/prosperity of your citizens.
I’ll believe it when I see it. (I won’t)
Absolute nonsense, better build something people actually benefit from, like a citywide network of safe bike lanes.
… and first deadly air taxi accident by 2027.
You mispelled 2025*
Closely followed by an even more deadly ground accident from the falling debris…
Remember Uber Air? Still waiting…
Multipass.
The air traffic around the city is already insane, weren’t they already talking about trying to reduce it? I can’t imagine this happens
Cool story bro
And another 9/11 by 2026
Air can not be eletric. Quit messing with my head!
Dam, I thought I was good at intentionally misunderstanding but you well and truly beat me here! Bravo!
ripe_banana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why are tax dollar being spent making it a little faster for rich FiDi people to get to JFK. Take the A train like the rest of us.
There is so much infrastructure NYC could improve:
And that is just what I can think in the moment.
lemann@lemmy.one 1 year ago
This! Instead of burning the money on useless garbage, put it towards the existing underfunded infrastructure which would benefit way more people!
Uniquitous@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Rail infrastructure costs money to maintain. So do roads, for that matter. If this is the first step towards ubiquitous pollution-free air taxis, we should be cheering, not grousing.
tillimarleen@feddit.de 1 year ago
yeah, let‘s get rid of this antiquated shit. I‘ll cut my legs off and copter out of this ridiculous set
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I’m just glad that vehicle take off, landing, flight and maintenance requires no associated infrastructure.