Once safe drone flight has been mastered there’s no reason the cargo can’t be a person going to work. That will enable families to live much farther from the noisy, dirty city work hubs. Politically this means more Americans living in the Republican-voting countryside, and fewer living in the Democrat-voting cities.
Wouldn't your ability to get to work by this means be rather unpredictable, what with weather and stuff?
If you're riding a bicycle or motorcycle (or on foot) and it's stormy, you get wet, but you get there. With an aerial transport, you don't take off if you care to live.