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New York intends to have electric air taxis by 2025 (www.techspot.com)
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New York intends to have electric air taxis by 2025::undefined

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[–] ripe_banana@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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:

  • Biking Infrastructure
  • More subway routes in Brooklyn
  • Better ties to PATH and LIRR
  • Expanded and more reliable bus infrastructure

And that is just what I can think in the moment.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just glad that vehicle take off, landing, flight and maintenance requires no associated infrastructure.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it need road? Rail? Asphalt, steel, or concrete, which wear down and need to be replaced? Or does it just need a standard charging station as used by current EV's? FFS, get over your fucking normalcy bias.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Extensive air traffic control and dedicated infrastructure that is applicable, likely proprietary, only for this one service (including anything power related), significantly higher inherent risks in its operation. A service that caters for the slightest fraction of travellers and the more people using it, the less practical an idea it is.

Normalcy in wanting services that have a meaningful impact for more than a handful of people.

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

Take the A train like the rest of us.

This! Instead of burning the money on useless garbage, put it towards the existing underfunded infrastructure which would benefit way more people!