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The Paris Olympics Promised Flying Taxis—Here’s Why They Failed to Launch
Futuristic plans for tourists to fly over Paris stalled as critics derided flying taxis as an "absurd" invention, that will "only benefit a few ultra rich people."
“[We’re] making people aware that this is not science fiction,” he told WIRED in February, touting the flying taxi as a sustainable, safe and quiet mode of transport that would become normal in just a few years. After being rejected for a state loan, the company was facing the prospect of insolvency “in the foreseeable future,” if its shareholders would not agree to more financing, he told newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. “A lot of the initial use cases will be first and business class passengers connecting with flights,” Michael Cervenka, chief technology officer of UK-based flying taxi company Vertical Aerospace, said earlier this year.
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