Comments by "Nicolae Crefelean" (@kneekoo) on "Flying Air Taxi IS COMING, so are Hyperloop u0026 Boring Tunnels" video.

  1. Over short distances, across a metropolis, air taxis are more inefficient than airplanes because they fly much lower, where both air drag and gravity are stronger than 12km up. We're still far from having working prototypes that tick all the important check-boxes when it comes to flying machines in low altitude. Gravity, air drag, bigger batteries to compensate, extra weight added by the batteries, redundant systems and even parachutes... so you bet it's hard. Basically, I expect air taxis to be the next step in the evolution of private airplanes, just electric and capable of taking off and landing vertically, but quite expensive due to their cost. We'll have to wait and "see" their noise levels when they become reality, not just computer animations. :P
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