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Beat traffic by air: Israel flies drone taxi over Jerusalem
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y agoThese things are useless without frequent landing spots, even if we develop a safe tech many cities are completely unequipped to deal with this sort of traffic. The ideal landing for such machine is a flat surface at around 200ft in the air. Not too tall skyscrapers where wind becomes a factor when trying to land and not too low that you are facing turbolence among buildings. In one word you'd need the type of building that Sao Paulo has and a platform on top of it, and in fact helicopter traffic is very intense there, because necessity is the mother of invention. Tokyo somewhat too but much less so. Maybe, just maybe NYC and Chicago could be adapted but there are too many super high buildings and a very popular law not to fly helicopters over Manhattan. London, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem forget about it, you'd need a complete overhaul of the skyline.