Revolutionizing urban travel: NYC's first electric air taxi flight

[@hisokamorow8388]

Finally a video that showcases the noise level. Thanks Sun!

[@PeterParker-wj3cr]

Been following Joby for awhile now. It's so awesome to finally see a test flight with a pilot on board and in a real urban environment!

[@TheBagOfHolding]

They didn't have a pilot here. They can barely get 2 minutes with a pilot.

[@PeterParker-wj3cr]

@@TheBagOfHolding They did have a pilot. i can tell by your comment you want them to fail..smh

[@TheBagOfHolding]

@PeterParker-wj3cr look at the video again when it takes off. Look inside there is no pilot. They can't fly long lifting a person. They flew it with a pilot on a different video but it was only seconds long clips edited together.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

@@PeterParker-wj3cr are you blind? They would brag if there was a pilot on during this flight. It wouldn't be able to fly for 4 minutes with a person.

[@PeterParker-wj3cr]

@@TheBagOfHoldingAs i've mentioned before. Been following this company for the start. In the past joby has been testing remotely. But recently they built 2 aircrafts with the pilot section configured. They already delivered the first one to the military i believe 2 weeks ago now. This evtol that they brought to new york is the other one with the pilot seat on board. Not to mention they introduce the pilot if you watched the full presentation online. So i'm not sure why you keep saying with a pilot on board it would only fly for 4 minutes. I know its ok now a days just to get online and say anything. Facts no longer matter in todays world.

[@BlueEyed888]

So quiet and stealthy, I can imagine wide acceptance where Helicopters are banned due to noise! Battery tech will only improve from here, glad I got in at ground floor price bc JOBY is a guaranteed winner now. They are so far ahead of the competition.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

If you got in at the beginning you are down 44%

[@BlueEyed888]

I did not start buying JOBY shares until after it appeared on 60 Minutes w Anderson Cooper. My shares are up over $300K currently so plenty of cushion for me now. No worries here!

[@TheBagOfHolding]

@@BlueEyed888 that's not the ground floor like you said before.

[@skyloveglobalnelsonbarbonc8009]

Yes its qmazing to see in the future 8:06 ❤

[@Raydio6]

I have some Joby stocks because I truly believe in this company!

[@Raydio6]

And the aircraft looks like it flies great! Super stable and maneuverable

[@mahbubhossainsamm]

But the noise?😢

[@Still_Life723]

It's a historic day.👍🏽

[@wilderbeestmcc6539]

Wow that’s fantastic….Well done guys😃👍🇬🇧

[@TRUTHTEACHER2007]

What safety features does it have and what happens during wind gusts?

[@alessandroferraris04.31]

Joby ❤️🌎

[@carolayathlete9527]

😮 we are ready !!

[@king1maduro]

Awesome drone.

[@neutrino78x]

these will carry one pilot and four passengers

[@SJG-96]

How much$$ does the ride cost?

[@fabuleuse533]

A little expensive uber taxi

[@WhenTheLionRoars]

I noticed a few birds flying near the craft. What happens in the event of a bird strike? Also, I've been on passenger jets that were told to go around and hold because of unfavorable weather, will this craft be able to do the same or can they only fly in ideal weather?

[@skyloveglobalnelsonbarbonc8009]

Global skylove❤

[@loungelizard836]

Nice recharge time. What is the range, how much power in the battery pack?

[@neutrino78x]

I believe it's 155 miles and the top speed is 200 mph

[@stevenford6107]

so quiet

[@drbendover7467]

U suggest they test it for ten thousand hours in all scenarios before even taking one passenger:)

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

Not only is Joby currently testing with the FAA, but the USAF will be also testing separately. The military is seriously interested in EVTOL's as rear area transportation.

[@wojciechzgodowski]

Much safer than a helicopter. ❤

[@misterx8592]

I’ve hot one of these in my backyard…but mines a little bigger and faster…

[@neutrino78x]

possibly not that much faster. This goes 200 mph, with a range of 155 miles. Plus it carries one pilot and four passengers.

[@crkproductions5000]

Like any new transportation method, I wander what the expected crash rate is and how many lives are lost yearly with this new innovation.

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

The overall simplicity of electric engines vs combustion engines, combined with the redundancy of 6 engines with 6 batteris means it will be far LESS prone to mechanical failure than either traditional fix or rotor winged aircraft.

[@crkproductions5000]

@@helifanodobezanozi7689 most MVAs are not cause by mechanical failures but human errors as they drive impaired and test the upper limits of their vehicles. I expect the same causes with this innovation.

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

@@crkproductions5000 While I broadly agree with your assessment, I gotta say that it is misplaced. An EVTOL isn't a car, and the standard for licensed commercial pilots and drivers are EXTREMELY different. Most commercial aircraft don't crash due to pilots "testing the upper limits" of their aircraft. Until automation catches up, these will be effectively flown by licensed pilots flying the equivalent of a bus route. (We're not talking about Top Gun: Maverick or the Star War pod races! 😆)

[@crkproductions5000]

@@helifanodobezanozi7689 I appreciate your response. If we assume a relatively low rate of accidents due in part to what you have correctly said, as the number of flights per day increases in the context of that low rate, the absolute value of the number of accidents will also increase. So the percentage of crashes may remain steady and low while the absolute number of accidents rises in proportion to the increased number of take offs and landings. It is sooooooooooo exciting to have a conversation with a person who submits rational arguments and logic vs. personal attacks. This has been fun.

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

@@crkproductions5000 You are welcome! Great conversing with a logical person such as yourself as well!

[@PurpleSlurpy98]

How is an Air Taxi wich can not land in streets/undesignated places any different from a helicopter ?

[@Bart-dg6qv]

Helicopter is safe.

[@TheBumbleCheese]

They are electric and look modern. Anything else is the basically the same with the current law

[@MonsterSound.Bradley]

They are so much quieter that they are permitted to operate in far more areas. Plus they are far less expensive to operate = lower cost fares.

[@shaner2221]

NEXT FEW YEARS. Meh!! We need them NOW.

[@blindinglight8604]

They say the next few years but I've been hearing news like this for decades.

[@wojciechzgodowski]

They should keep it flying NYC to Jersey City nonstop just breaks to charge batteries

[@jayflow7949]

Sorry But That’s Now A “Car” it’s A VTOL Aircraft

[@nikonmark37814]

What happens if you lose an engine or two?

[@Bannysadkosays2u]

I'm thinking the loss of even one set of props would send this thing plummeting to the ground.

[@UpsetNerd]

It can handle the loss of any single propeller by shutting down the opposite one and make an emergency landing on the remaining four. That's why it has six propellers - that's the smallest number with which you can have that kind of redundancy. Losing two adjacent ones while in hover would most likely be unrecoverable though.

[@Bannysadkosays2u]

@@UpsetNerd I see that now. I didn't notice that it has six props.

[@TheBagOfHolding]

Can it lift 5 people with all the engines? No

[@neutrino78x]

@@TheBagOfHoldingyes, it is designed to lift five people.

[@BRZbazzanx]

Police, Ambulance, Firefighter

[@loungelizard836]

It would be so great to see these replace those awful helicopters. How loud is this relative to a helicopter?

[@neutrino78x]

pretty damn quiet; they have a video on joby's web site where they have a calibrated decibel meter at 100 yards (roughly 100 m) and iirc it was 55 dB.

[@ing.pacolh7458]

À multinoisy electric helicopter that could be set on fire with lithium batteries?

[@adienowed6366]

Technically brilliant,but commercially viable?

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

Yes. Like an Uber premium, the cost will be about $100. HOWEVER, that price is per seat. So a 10 min ride to the airport will be $400, then $400 back to the start with returning passengers. Rinse and repeat for at least 8 hours a day with 20 min charge breaks in between.

[@lucchasse2413]

Now do it with a AI pilot.

[@MonsterSound.Bradley]

That's coming.

[@vommir.]

Who's going first?

[@BRZbazzanx]

No Taxi... Military

[@douglassun8456]

Well, good luck to them. If they can scale it up so that they're moving significant numbers of passengers at an affordable price, it could make a real difference in congested urban areas like NYC. Otherwise, it will just be a luxury for the few who can afford it, like helicopters now.

[@neutrino78x]

Ever heard of Blade? It's a lot cheaper than you think. It's only 200 bucks. It currently exists and you can fly from JFK to Manhattan in about five minutes. I believe the plan is to eventually switch to these electric aircraft. Just remember, taxis are not public transit. Both exist. Lots of people ride taxis in the City of New York who are not rich.

[@salimrehman2028]

What about the helicopter. People used for taxi drive.

[@JO-mg6xc]

That’s a helicopter 🚁 with many propellers

[@Bart-dg6qv]

Try autorotation in this thing.

[@CasnioMiCasio]

hexa-copter

[@fidgetspinner343]

Joby, can't wait for the launch in Scotland... 💩

[@rossnolan7283]

Damn that ferrie was noisy .... The mayor seemed to fluff his lines 'world's first heliport'? or was it 'teleport' -Star Trek style....(listen @ 5.37 - 51 ) Have they forgotten the PanAm helitaxi disaster already ? The simple failure of a landing gear leg caused the catastrophic outcome and ended the era of VTOL commutting to downtown . The landing gear on Joby is noticeably spindly and with ,literally, tons of batteries and motors out on the wings up so high the hazard is obvious -- plexiglas gives no protection when things go wrong and opening such doors underwater is impossible ... The vertical VX4 has kindly demonstrated just how dangerous long overhung nacelles and tilt rotors are but did so sans passengers or near to persons nearby --how do people get into and out of these things on a busy flight deck with downwash gail and decapitators all around --no airbridges to walk in to your air consitioned airliner cabin while the rain pours down outside or snow ,winds etc lugging their airline limit baggage ? It is ONLY a very few cases of major airports being surrounded by high rise and several rivers en route making THIS peculiar path to an air terminal 'attractive' for eVTOL --ditto for the usual west coast example around San Fransico bay. Outlier cases and unrepresentative of the vast majority of locations - and being the one case when you want to 'dump' your car on arrival (if leaving on a jetplane...) Con job sadly.

[@rossnolan7283]

crossouts are unintentional -old laptop ( I don't have the ONE MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY "budget" of Joby -see their expenditure statement and projected cash burn --over $I mil per DAY. Recall that the humble Wright brothers succeeded where Langley failed despite his government backed multi million 2023 dollar slush fund. When I see that mad 'visionary' look in JoBen's eyes it looks a lot like dollar signs ...) - the Wrights didn't have govt money or fat investors.

[@rossnolan7283]

Addenda - I misspelt the founder's name , It is easily confused with JonBene Ramsay -and of course his name is actually Bevirt --aircraft are normally named after their designer or founder's SURname not their baby name (which is what 'Joby' is said to be ) although the founder's full real name has been used in the past -eg Chance Vought, Glenn L Martin et al --we don't fly "Bill 787s" or "Jack" B2s in contrast (both, like "Joby" nicknames ,for -William Boeing or John Northrop . Perhaps it would be better to stick with the tradition and call it the Bevirt . Archer is also innappropriate since Piper has used that name for decades -- and 'midnight' is just comic book stuff and black is the worst colour for an aircraft -unless perhaps a nightfighter or WW2 British bomber . In any case common sense is not the forte' of this whole field.

[@neutrino78x]

Well, this would just drop you off at the heliport in Manhattan, which is on a pier in the river. That's an official FAA/NYC approved place to land for helicopters; if you own your own helicopter you're allowed to land there. For right now, they will only go from approved airport to approved airport. Theoretically, in the future, they could land on any flat surface anywhere in the world, but the FAA will probably only allow certain places; we'll have to see what happens in that regard. Plus, this doesn't have the huge blades of the PanAm helicopter. And it's a lot quieter, and should be a lot cheaper to operate and maintain. 🙂

[@neutrino78x]

(there's an existing service called Blade that flies you from JFK to the Manhattan heliport for only 200 bucks. Few people seem to know about it, but it's not restricted or anything. Joe Blow off the street can buy a ride, if he has 200 bucks.)

[@rossnolan7283]

best if you read my post . (also look up the official accident report on the first Joby s4 -a cascading series of failures after one blade detachment led to adjacent rotor disintegration and total loss of control- impacted inverted .... now no more accidents for 1,000,000,000 minus one, flights 10-9 ? You can land 'anywhere' IN THEORY (as you note) but in practice it will be "anywhere ELSE" after the first time in your neighbourhood --the noise and turmoil only suit non residential locations and therefore require a changeover taxi or uber ,recharge facilities and all the rest (see the Uber elevate depictions -multistory ,expensive etc )@@neutrino78x

[@samuelgates5935]

The Jetson era is here

[@carlmain7370]

Whats revolutionary about it? If you dont see little gas helicopters flying around, what makes you believe an electric engine helicopter any different?

[@neutrino78x]

a lot quieter, and a lot cheaper to operate

[@Hornet_Legion]

looks like a helicopterr

[@AllensTrains]

It looks quite a stable design. One wonders how it would fare in bad weather. Electriacalliy driven propellers have the drawback of being rather weak by comparison with their internal compulsion engine counterparts. It this air taxi only has to travel a short distance such as over a river then there is less risk the battery will run out before it gets to its destination! I think if this contraption had to cross between Scottish Islands than a strong cross wind might make it too dangerous. What is the maximum safe flying time? Thanks for uploading.

[@MonsterSound.Bradley]

"Electriacalliy [SIIC] driven propellers have the drawback of being rather weak by comparison with their internal compulsion engine counterparts." Not true. Not even close.

[@AllensTrains]

@@MonsterSound.Bradley Why then does this 'air taxi' have 5 rotors in stead of just the 1 rotor seen on conventional helicopters?

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

There's more than 1 battery pack. I believe each engine has it's own separate battery.

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

​@@AllensTrainsSimple, less noise and greater redundancy for safety. If a conventional helicopter looses it's small tail rotor, it is game over. Chances are this aircraft can loose 1 or 2 engines and either glide to a landing using the wings, or autorotate to a vertical landing in case of emergency. As for the noise, the biggest culprit with helicopters is the massive main propeller, which like a whip, rotates fast enough for the blades to break the sound barrier. Multiple smaller propellers spinning at a slower rate means no mini sonic booms.

[@neutrino78x]

It has range 155 miles, max speed 200 mph

[@BF_Yuna]

❤

[@gamepool8517]

Is this not just a helicopter???🤨

[@Cushingish]

COST ? $500 per passenger from Manhattan to JFK is not efficient . Cramer says " Sell , Sell Sell

[@neutrino78x]

blade is 200 iirc. They plan to switch to these when available. Few people in NYC seem to know about Blade. I don't even live there (I live and grew up in Silicon Valley) and I know of it. It flies you from JFK to the Manhattan helipad. 🙂

[@RichardTrujillo-g3o]

It looks wobbly. The sound it makes has been muted. I have a feeling we'll see pigs fly before this is approved by the FAA, let alone operate commercially.

[@neutrino78x]

it's not muted bro, this thing is quiet as hell. They had a calibrated decibel meter, and at 100 yards, it was 55 dB. NASA tested the noise as well and reached the same conclusion

[@kylegray4542]

helicopter 🚁

[@denillefleming2942]

Fancy drone

[@fabuleuse533]

Helicoptor cannot fly in urban city

[@kylegray4542]

@fabuleuse533 yes they can that's a stupid statement.

[@denillefleming2942]

@fabuleuse533 many buildings have helicopter pads.

[@Bart-dg6qv]

What was the name of that sewer tank that was exploring Titanic? Are you catching my drift...

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

Hard no.

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

@PutinWearsPigozhinsWigs. Not really. This reminds me of the guy with the submersible though.

[@ottototofilm]

There is a helicopter for that 😂

[@muckraker7942]

I think this is a great idea for really rich people who are suicidal.

[@BlueEyed888]

It’s flown more than 30,000 flights with zero casualties. The DoD wrecked one unmanned prototype by running it way outside its design parameters. What’s your point?

[@muckraker7942]

@@BlueEyed888 It’s in the headline stupid.

[@jonpetter8921]

That what they said when the first passenger flight flew.

[@mcnultyssobercompanion6372]

The brave Ukrainians employ this service as well. Unfortunately its use is open only to gren@des and the destinations are all one-way, usually down into Russian trenches, or tank hatches, or on top of Russian heads. Seems like pretty good motivation to stay home and not become an occupier in Ukraine, yeah? Still they keep arriving..... Slava Ukraine.

[@QuickThink688]

Quieter than what?

[@QuickThink688]

Just more noise pollution. Imagine hundreds of those flying overhead all day and into the night.

[@screenapple1660]

This is why migrants want to move to NYC.

[@rockstarkid505]

Ehang is way better this looks too big and ordinary

[@cotyteru4992]

Does not look steady nor safe while in air flight 😨

[@josephrubalema1193]

How about an electric air balloon?

[@Rob-i9k]

Great idea for the future, however some of the best Heli pilots died a couple weeks ago. I am sure not going to put my life into immigrant pilots.

[@mr-wx3lv]

Another little toy for the rich ...

[@maap1222]

does it comes with an Xbox joystick?

[@salimrehman2028]

What about the helicopter. People used for taxi drive.