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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Exactly. Commercial (and recreational) drone use is a reality now. Nay not so for flying cars and jetpacks.
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The jetpacks will probably need to wait for fusion pack power supplies. Neither batteries nor dinojuice have enough energy density for a practical jetpack.
But the flying cars (based on drone tech) are at most a decade away. Airbus is working on a literal air taxi.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/22/1...c-first-flight
In Brazil there is an entire industry of helicopter taxis in Rio. Affordable, too.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-brazil-for-63
LA is another big city that could benefit from the service.
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/23261/u...service-launch
Not everybody gets it, but it's the twenty first century out there, with more future shock to come:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl77FVobxVI