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All of these electric VTOL urban air mobility things are hopeless. Various tech companies including google have taken a stab at them over the past two decades and none are anywhere close to entering service. Google shut theirs down. I really want them to work, but nothing gets past the physics/economics of batteries having piss poor energy density relative to fossil fuels and the massive inefficiency of small rotors. I think Boom has a better chance of flying than Wisk. Meanwhile, Uber Copter is up and running in NYC with regular helicopters.


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