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Old Posted Jun 20, 2019, 12:02 PM
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Cool. How's the Air Show this year? I won't go this time, just heard of funny featured gadgets like so called autonomous air taxis. You know, basically autonomous drones carrying a couple of passengers at most, pretty much like a helicopter does, precisely.
The concept feels sort of innovative in that these new things are closer to flying cars, so to speak. They would be more convenient for frequent/daily use, just like cars.

So they say the technology's already there to develop these drones for the general public; of course the problem would be the total lack of infrastructure to host that kind of vehicles.
That reminded me that la Défense was supposedly originally planned as though there would be flying personal vehicles in the future... No kidding, I actually once saw a document online that claimed it was designed for helicopters all over.
That could make sense someday after all, if you're optimistic.
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