Wouldn’t a subway or train be 100 times more cost effective and safe? In a connected city asky taxi alleviates 1 car from traffic, a subway alleviates thousands. Not to mention the extreme danger of helicopters and tall buildings. Helicopters are easily affected by upa and downdrafts, and large buildings in cities typically create these conditions. Seems very dangerous to put a bunch of these out, even experienced helicopter pilots need practice with a new machine. On top of that what about air traffic control and landing? Do I have to schedule my rides in advance to avoid mid air collision? Will buildings have to be reinforced for landing pads?
Helicopter taxis exist today, but almost nobody uses them because they are too expensive. These don’t solve the expense issue, I see no reason these will change anything notable
Range of 22 miles
Ah, so even worse at its basic function than helicopter taxis we have today. The chopper has to fly from it’s base, to you, to your destination, then back to it’s base using a total of 22 miles? And let’s not forget you need to keep a few of those miles in reserve. Worthless as a taxi.
Hit the nail right on the head. This is just a company trying to rebrand helicopters. And bad helicopters at that. They are banking on naive people who think this is actually a novel and viable technology. It will at the very best be another toy for the super wealthy to send the kids to Disney.
Interesting; I follow a motovlogger (Itchy Boots), and she is currently travelling across many African countries. After a while my wife and I noticed that there was a clear tendency of countries where she spoke French being the dirtiest, poorest, having the worst infrastructure and corruption.
Same with Haiti (French colony) vs Dominican Republic (Spanish colony).
Compared to Haiti, every country in Latin America is like paradise (fuck, some of the most racist comments I’ve heard came from Latin Americans talking about Haitian immigrants in their countries)
That’s sad. I hope these comments are not from fellow Brazilians.
The comparison with the Dominican Republic is even more emblematic, because they started as equals (same island, divided between France an Spain in 1697). There has been no charitable colonizer, but there really seems to be a trend of France being the worst.
Is there a “colonizer” rank, ordered by average HDI of colonized countries?
My guess would be England, Spain, Portugal, then France far behind. (only the longest colonization period counts)
French colonization of Haiti was particularly horrible because of the mass importation of slaves and extremely poor treatment of slaves on plantations. But Haiti’s poor development is also the result of many post-independence events. France forced Haiti to pay massive reparations. The US intervened in Haiti several times to prop up US-backed leaders who did little to develop Haiti.
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