Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

[@GainButLearn-in8me]

You have to move up a gear. China already certified an autonomous eVTOL (Ehang 216). You can't let a newcomer in the aviation industry win you.

[@_Breakdown]

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[@spartan3299]

But where is the mass transit and city planning that put us stuck in traffic. it did make contractor winners wealthy. Same story here? Your right we need good ideas but we need to pay our bills, strengthen the Dollar, improve the infrastructure that efficiently moves the country and it's materials. Imagine if the I90 overpass was a terrorist's testing our weaknesses. Drone delivery could be just another way to isolate the masses and urban mobility a way for the rich be above those grounded. I love aviation , but believe we should lead the world in a diverse mobility. But we need urban mobility at ground level. And we can't decrease the quality of life of those living at the surface.

[@spartan3299]

For public safety and noise abatement please push your Airspace up above and out of the human's living and breathing space. After all It is our right to have living space to work, to serve, teach, be family, and enjoy the timeless pursuit of recreation, even flying our kites and model aircraft as for example in Shielded recreational operations . How much of our tax dollars over how many decades has the FAA spent on noise abatement only to dream of running a web of multirotor light to heavy lift aircraft streaming and screaming over our heads. Manned and commercial aircraft will always be needed, but will require separation as well as integration. Separation laterally and in altitude so as to improve the quality of life of the peoples this tech is developed to serve. And separation in altitude and route in case of the eventual aircraft failure, pilot error, bird strike, or medical emergency. In order to give the souls on board and the people below the statistically proven best chance of survival, usable altitude and a safe route are keys to safety. For about 100 years model aviation has been proven to be the safest forms of aviation. And I agree Bad Actors will use drones. They will not display their ID and location. But placing the burden of installing remote devices on their balsa , foam and plastic model planes does not satisfy public safety nor does it improve national security. Primarily and most importantly, modelers use model aviation to teach aeronautics, safety, construction techniques and craftsmanship and as well teach doing no harm and good citizenship.

[@marcv2648]

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