“We have air taxis now. They’re called helicopters.”
Helicopter travel is one of the riskiest forms of transportation due to an assortment of factors including variations in pilot experience and training, unsafe or rapidly changing weather conditions, variations in terrain and visibility along flight routes, mechanical malfunctions, shortfalls in maintenance protocols, and lack of safety technologies and industry regulations. To put it simply, helicopters are more likely to crash than most other types of aircraft; this is true for tour and medical helicopters as well as helicopters used in military and search-and-rescue missions.
I could not agree more. My point is that people keep coming along and reinventing the wheel...like The Hyperloop. A bus or a streetcar would be a hundred times more cost efficient. Believe me, there would be nothing safer than helicopters about air taxis. All the same problems would exist.