NASA in Silicon Valley Live - Air Taxis and the Future of Flight

Coming soon to a city near you: Flying taxis! 🚁 We’re leading the nation to quickly open a new era in air travel called urban air mobility that will transform how people move around cities. In this episode of NASA in Silicon Valley Live, hear about new technologies being developed to shape this exciting future of flight. Tune in!

[MindFlowersDotNet]

As real as Gemini or Apollo!
The lies are so cool and hip!

[risingredstone]

0:20 are you guys sure that they wont postpone the date again?

[EvilNeonETC]

Imagine how cool that title would be. "Commercial VTOL pilot".

[gokulakrishnan]

What about state borders and thunderstorms?

[MrMatt]

New? NASA has had this and a new air traffic system on the drawing board for decades. Hopefully we'll see something practical some day.

[michaelworkman]

beautiful, this first craft I'm seeing has that Rotodyne look that I've been hoping would be looked at again in light of tech advances

[sitarauniyar]

Its really an great idea
Love u NASA😍

[edwardkijanka]

GUYS PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME YOU DID NOT COLAB WITH MORGZ IF YOU DID YOUR A DISCRASE TO HUMANITY

[Somethirdthing]

Very cool but clean electric does not exist yet correct?

[williamarmstrong]

I hope someone has thought of bird strikes. At certain times of the year flocks of birds many 1000's strong fly in and around our cities.
I hope research has been made into bird avoidance systems. Perhaps pre recorded predator bird species on directional speakers?

[michaelworkman]

would have been so great if a tiny drone in the shape of the air taxi seen earlier had flown out and delivered cake

[Marco_Diamanti]

I think is a really ambitious project, but, really, right now all around the world there are a lot of thing that are really more important than this. Maybe in the future, for now we should care of things just like, corruction...

[swisstraeng]

I feel like those who are talking here don't know laws about aviation, or, are talking about the POSSIBILITY of making flying taxis physically, which of course is, yes, we can.
but safe? Nope. Not a safe as today's planes. No way.
Also there's the issue that anything that lacks wings, has bad efficiency. Yet wings are really unpractical for vertical takeoffs. And runway needs a lot of space. All of those don't go well together.
So either, taxis will have short ranges, either they'll need runways, which means, it's the current planes we have.
In any case, they'll not be cheap. by far. And safe? Nothing is safe without wings. (helicopters do have wings, by that I mean they can provide lift without an operating engine)


So no, we will not be flying soon. Also, flying is inefficient for small distances. And since anything that flies can fall, we certainly won't appreciate having a hole in our home due to a taxi crash.

[DaraM]

“Making our lives easier”...leaving others behind

[derekztattoos]

This wouldn't be affordable mote of transportation for some time IMO. Cool concepts though.

[ssssssssssss]

I did your research in X-Plane 8 at home 12 years ago, but with more aircraft flying around thanks to VATSIM. Who's giving you paychecks?

[nighthawkviper]

Late to the game as always. Happy Skunkin. 🌑

[arcadian]

5 years from something is an odd time to start counting down from.

[threatassessment]

All of this seems a little unbelievable

[stanleylittlejohn]

As if the pressure wasn’t enough for the engineers now they have a big red clock to remind them