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I just said that flying taxis are not the solution. I don’t know what the solution is but it will only come when technology addresses those energy, noise, and safety concerns. It’s not hard to imagine them all being addressed though. Energy storage keeps improving. Fusion energy is bound to be 30 years away for only another century or two. And the noise from early cars is 99.5% gone after so many years of evolution. I firmly believe that the safety issue is human drivers, not cars, and we have solutions coming for all that too.
You know what I hate worse than cars, though? Roads. We’ve conceded so much space to roads. The ground should be for people, bikes, animals, and ecosystems. You say that putting traffic in the air makes it noisier but I’m not so sure… it would be more removed than it is when it’s all right here on the ground whooshing past our houses. I think the future is likely underground or in the sky. And hopefully the need for transit can be reduced a lot too. That’s also easier to imagine in the telework age we’re living in.