> noise, [...] anxiety How is it any categorically different from taking a helicopter ride today, or being a passenger in a fast-moving scooter? A lot of peopl

> noise, [...] anxiety How is it any categorically different from taking a helicopter ride today, or being a passenger in a fast-moving scooter? A lot of people are demonstrably fine with that. > [...]wind The wind from the propellers will be going downwards, I don't see why the user would be subjected to more wind than if they were on a motorcycle or in a convertible for the rest of the ride. > are they worth the energy[...] Some quick searching shows that a 85 kWh Tesla battery is 540 kg, this vehicle is 400 kg in total, let's say very optimistically that 200 kg of that is the battery, so around 40 kWh. At $0.25 per kWh that's around $10 for a 5-10 minute ride. Considering you'd be able to traverse a significant distance in a dense city that doesn't seem too bad compared to a normal taxi. > [...]& technology cost Technology which is being developed for autonomous drones anyway, putting a seat in it instead of a cargo box doesn't make it that much more complex. > [...]Making a vehicle roll along the ground[...] Sure, but as a technology how much is rolling along the ground going to cost in a place like Tokyo if the government stopped subsidizing the land use required for that road surface? That's going to be the main longer term impact of "flying cars" in dense cities.