More info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO24YaCYu80
Test flight:
https://youtu.be/OazFiIhwAEs?t=84
Moreover, everyone has this idea about "flying cars", but no one really takes into account the skills required to fly them and to control the airspace.
New technology makes this more feasible than in the past, but it still would cost tens of billions to build and invoke this system. All to save a few passengers a little time in a congested city?
I don't see it happening.
The computer network needed to safely control these copter/drones would have to be huge an unfailing to avoid crashes once there is more than a few of these.
Does Singapore have overhead utility lines? So many what ifs.
I’m in the aerospace industry and visited one of our divisions in Singapore in 2013.
My Taxi driver was a former engineer for Seagate (they moved his plant to viet Nam) so I asked him about Singapore. Singapore Taxi Drivers had to be Singapore citizens. Singapore is the most expensive city to live in/own a car I had ever been to (over $100K/car to own a Car, average house price over $600K USD). Taxi fees were about 1/2 what they are in Dallas, however (my 17 mile ride was about $25). Taxi drivers have to work about 80 hours a week to survive or have a good paying side hustle.
When I left for the airport @ 4:00 AM I saw 3 crashed Taxis on the 17 mile trip to the airport. My Driver said taxi drivers work so much they fall asleep at the wheel and crash.
What could possibly go wrong?