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Will Flying Taxis Get to the 2024 Olympics in Time?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- Air-taxi startup Volocopter announced that it hopes to carry passengers with its VoloCity aircraft during the Paris Olympics. But will the company get its aircraft certified in time?
I explore the company’s plans at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and take a look at the future of eVTOLs.
0:00 Volocopter’s plan for 2024 Olympics
0:32 eVTOL at the games
1:43 Air taxi’s cost
2:26 Future of eVTOLs
I'm George Downs, a WSJ video journalist fascinated by how technology is changing how we get from A to B. If you're interested in the future of mobility or how modern transportation-from EVs to eVTOLs, and beyond- can impact our lives, then don't forget to subscribe.
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Do you think a single seater air taxi would save you time?
This is cool. But it’s not a car. It’s just a drone. Car would need wheels and be amphibious (sky, street). Anyway very cool but I don’t know why they label them “cars”
Certification is neither an easy nor a quick process. It will be nearly impossible to obtain certification for commercial flights in the next year.
Hope no, are too noisy and dangerous
Joby aviation is the further one along. Lets go!
great opportunity, far faster + cheaper than a paris taxi . That will need 30 minutes for 15 km and cost you 60€ simply due to long time.
Velocopter needs 10 km direct route instead 15 km by taxi and charges 35 -40€.
Obviously there will be a high demand at such prices, especially later when 2-4 seats become available.
Are you sure about that, i mean its still in Testing/trial but if you think about the long term use, theres already a flaw for this type of vehicle
*wind resistence
*maintenance
*If you watch the Channel Adam Something you can know where im talking about
I would love to fly in one! Please approve them soon!
please no
You no fool me, cowboy… that’s just a helicopter with itty bitty rotors.
This the way we travel tomarrow❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💓💓💓🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Heli+dron=volocoptor🤔
1 year later;
These comments in here😂
I would feel more safe if they put parachutes on those things, just in case.
These won't fly high enough for a parachute to open in time. But look how many propellers this has. If one goes down, you have plenty of back ups to get you down safely. I prefer the Archer Aviation model than this one but regardless, looking forward to air taxis!
Thats interesting. Do you know how many people are afraid to fly?!
The future is near 😎
Whatever they do at the Olympics (who can afford to attend?), the future of this technology is for rich people in a market between limo and full scale helicopter and only in highly dense and high traffic cities. And they can say what they want, it is loud and windy.
The fluture is horrible
Didn’t they already have this at JFK with helicopters to Manhattan. It’s a great idea until one crashes and kills people.
Because cars never crash right? 🙄
yeah, helicopters are 100% safe as well.
they can't lift a person for 3 minutes
They cannot make money on single passengers and passengers can't afford single flights.
I can afford it easily. Lot cheaper than a taxi in big cities . If you fly 10 km across Paris, then the taxi will drive 15-20 km and will take 3 times as long as a 10 km flight.
And guess what you will pay for a 15 km long taxi ride that will take about 30 minutes?
60€ - while 10 km flight is about 40€ and much faster.
No business case, but better way to start with a prototypr certification and 1 passenger and later more than to wait and miss the opportunity .
Yeah, I prefer our Embraer's Eve 🇧🇷
Shuttle 1 person at a time? Congrats on making it super pointless.
One passenger?? Not worthy
This is just a gimmick. This is a strategy of going to market with a prototype and hopefully getting more funding! There is no other intention here
XPENG: 🤣🤣🤣
That s what people told about EVs
🗣🩸💻
Obnoxiously noisy. I hope they never become a thing
What makes you think its noisy? They literally say in the video that it's extremely quiet.
Too bad, they will.
No. No. A thousand times no.
i agree
cool
is horrible, not cool