Your air taxi has arrived: Why Joby could be the first commercial eVTOL
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Joby Aviation is one of the most experienced companies trying to bring urban air taxis to the mainstream. In February 2021 it gave the public the first look at its eVTOL.
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Do you think air taxis will be landing in your neighborhood in the next 5 years?
With all of the traffic in Tampa I can definitely use one of these.
How about Lilium…these seem even more efficient and less noise…with turbo vents instead of primitive propellers…
Air taxis? That’s kind of nuts, where would you take off and land the things? They take a whole lot more room than a car.
Does cold weather compromise the battery power?
Toyota a taxi helicopter
What about solar charging wings? That would be a great ability.
Yes we will be using these very soon. Adoption rate will be much faster. EV have paved the way for electric transportation and eVTOL can benefit from this as well as EV autonomous AI tech.
I think if affordable air taxis become reality some day, it will really accelerate the urbanization of many areas around the world. This kind of revolutionary transportation could fix cities’ second biggest pitfall (after real estate affordability)
I can see a great use for these as an air ambulance …fly onto a hospital helipad,
I’m about to buy some Joby stock rn
600 Billion with a B?
Those props look very dangerous, necessitating large areas for landing, are those available all over cities?
I doubt the video is fake because the wind blowing the joby founder coming from a huge fan in background.
It’s a great concept if you can make it cheap enough, but I don’t think you can. All the science and engineering can be solved, but the regulators and lawyers are stronger than gravity. Most airplanes in the US fleet use engines designed over 50 years ago with some of them having been altered to add fuel injection. Even at prices over $300,000, most light aircraft still come with these antique engines because of the FAA and the Lawyers.
Rearding the noise: You simly use a high zoom! This way the distance of the human and the (far away) object behind him will apprear very close, even after they are not! This is the common method in video and photography!
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$600 million, not $600 billion; Are you on drugs?
This has many applications for emergency vehicles, think difficult to access areas. Island hopping to skip a ferry ride or even to fly into mountainous terrain that’s blocked by snow or ice.
Ever since Kobe Bryant died from a crash I never want to ride a helicopter ever.
It’s a monumental task to get certification and air space restrictions will be a challenge.… but the design and acoustics of this EVTOL are exceptional! As battery energy density gets better, this will definitely help JOBY but they still have a steep slope to conquer.…
Wait 10 years then release it it’ll be worth it
this is bull crap, he could be on a green screen or talking with ear plugs and a mike.…. they can edit sound later this is not a steath aircraft. know what your talking about before you broadcast it!!!
I personally don’t really use RideShare apps. I would want one of these for myself for personal use.
All is good until a bird hits a motor or the battery malfunctions.
Note in the JoeBen Bievert promo video that he is holding his elbows close to his body (keeping his suit from flapping TOO much in the WIND that is going TOWARDS the hovering Joby ie the aircraft is DOWNwind and hence noise blowing away . There is a new non company video with audio (no ‘soundtrack’ as usual with muzak imposed) of the aircraft hovering in what looks like still air and the noise is quite LOUD
-the camera zooms out to show the camera is about 100 to 150 yards away -there just are no ‘300 foot diameter’ empty spaces in suburbia or cities so that measuring sound at this, arbitrary, distance makes any sense . If they cannot go into (not fly over at altitude) neighbourhoods WITHOUT waking people up or annoying them then ‘commutting’ is OUT . Even relying on poorly paid Uber drivers to arrive at your house for pick up and delivery to a ‘vertiport’ ‑then fly ‑and repeat in reverse to get to your real destination requires FOUR taxi drives each day and SIX changeovers for your ‘seamless’ journey at god knows what cost. These are not ‘flying cars’ as once envisaged and are both uneconomic, unfriendly and unsafe –bird (or flockstrike will result in catastrophic consequences during transition or hover if not cruise (having an unbalanced prop on your tail could be interesting — losing half a v tail is losing it all –even the propwash on only one side if shut down . Space does not permit a longer analysis but the 50s tri service and other VTOL experiences should not be forgotten .@ 1.26 note the wind direction –the ‘crossing out’ in my post below is unintentional and a quirk of an old computer. I will try to link the ‘pirate’ video/audio when I can relocate it .
Clean up your audio.
I wonder do these air taxis have space to carry the passengers’ baggage?
it’s cumbersome, too big and it’s never gonna work on a daily basis because there’s no ground for lift off and landing!
people don’t realize when airline transport first started it was only affordable to business people and the wealthy. now even low income riff raff are able to fly. it will be the same with this new air taxi service.
It’s 9/21/2023 and the Joby Air Taxi is still a Hanger Queen.
I think it also provides an alternative for passengers who are a little Leary of flying a commercial plane. So hey, it may take a couple hours longer, but how cool would it be to just hop from one eVTOL to the next until you’ve reached your destination? I get that it’s primary function is to provide quicker cross-city travel, but with a battery range of 150miles, you could easily hop on 5 of these and be half way across the country. How cool.