Hopefully this will encourage billionaires to pile in and crash. Like a submarine.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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Sucks to be in Texas, the Silicon Valley alpha testing hub of the US.
oh God, please no. We can't even manage driving on one-way roads and you want us to take to the skies as well.
I'm all for a better way of transporting that might actually get rid of our gridlock areas, but I feel like allowing unlicensed, uncertified VTOLs taxis into our already congested transportation areas is not the solution to this problem.
Give it 200ish more years and society might have advanced far enough to have them, but humanity isn't ready for this yet.
Capitalists pushing the future so they look like visionaries, being completely at the ready to hide the damage, liabilities, deaths, and failures that the technology creates.
Meet George Jetson!
His boy Elroy!
CRASH!!!!
Flintstones, meet the Flintstones.....they can't crash their car into a tree!
In a competent administration, this would be inspiring.
With the current set of apparatchiks, this is terrifying.
In a competent administration, this would be inspiring.
No it wouldn't. It's always been a dumb idea to get around public mass transit.
The new aircraft “are going to make the airspace far more interesting..."
I don't want the airspace over my head "interesting," I want it boring.
I don't know, I think it's bad enough companies have been beta testing self driving cars on public roads where the rest of us need to have human intelligence and pass a driver's test.
Now we will have flying cars crashing down on our houses.
Laws under capitalism are like religion; for controlling the peasants. As long as you commit crime for-profit against the peasantry, behind the liability shield of a corporation, you will be protected by the state.
Honestly, even in a competent administration, this scares me because of the fact that it's bypassing the certification process altogether. We've already seen the danger caused with certified aircrafts, and now you're telling me you want to bypass the certification process altogether.
The Trump administration first signaled its support for the new aviation tech in June, when the president signed an executive order meant to cut “burdensome red tape” around the operation of drones, “flying cars,” and supersonic aircraft in the US. A plan released by the Biden administration in 2023 aimed to deploy air taxis by 2028, in time for the Los Angeles Olympics. Because eVTOLs are new, it has taken years for the companies that build them to receive full certifications from the federal government. The novel aircraft need new rules and safety standards, and have to go through several rounds of certifications before they can begin to carry paying passengers. None of the companies involved in the pilot projects have completed the full certification process. The pilot program “is focused on informing standards and future policy development and is not a mechanism to bypass certification requirements,” FAA spokesperson Donnell Evans wrote in a statement to WIRED. “Aircraft included in the partnership must already be going through the FAA’s formal type certification process.” The US aviation industry is trying to pull even with China, where the government has given homegrown firm EHang certifications to operate autonomous eVTOLs. The company says it will start by operating sightseeing flights in a few Chinese cities. Dubai plans to start providing air taxis in eVTOLs with Joby Aviation as early as this year.
The Trump administration
Probably the very worst way to start off. This is the same idiot who gutted the faa.