Are Air Taxis In NYC A Good Idea?
Boomer & Gio
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4.2 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You see these new, like, helicopter taxis that they're testing out? |
| 0:03.7 | Yeah, I saw them yesterday. |
| 0:04.9 | I was, I wrote my bike because I'm getting ready for the Five Burrow Bike Tour. |
| 0:09.2 | And they were down by Cypriani. |
| 0:10.9 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:11.5 | Over there. |
| 0:12.7 | And apparently... |
| 0:13.2 | If that works, that's going to be... |
| 0:14.5 | They're going to work, but it's going to be awesome. |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah, I mean, it basically is going to get you to the airports and stuff. Like get you over to JFK, they say from over there to JFK seven minutes, you know, something like that. Well, it's kind of like what Blade did. The company that's making these actually bought Blade. Oh, okay. I didn't know that. So they're right here on the west side and also over there down on the southern tip of Manhattan is where they, you know, go in and out of. These things are electric, by the way. Yeah, electric air taxi. And it looks like about eight, they have eight propellers. I'm looking at it right now. Looks, yes, one, two, three, four, no. Six? Six, I think. Yeah. I mean. I mean, how many bags can you put in the back of that thing? |
| 0:57.8 | That's true. It's got to be a weight limit type of deal, right? If you have a big suitcase or something. |
| 1:03.5 | I mean, it look like giant drones is what they look like. Yes. Yeah, because they have those |
| 1:08.1 | propellers on the top, smaller ones. But I wonder if it's going to go other places or just |
| 1:15.2 | bad it's got about a hundred miles worth of battery |
| 1:19.4 | you better make sure that thing is charged up before you get in it |
| 1:23.0 | well yeah I mean of course so I'm... I mean, are they pilotless? |
| 1:29.0 | No. |
| 1:29.9 | Not yet. |
| 1:30.7 | They have to have. |
| 1:31.8 | Eventually, maybe they'll be pilotless. |
| 1:34.8 | You can't, you can't go up in the air with a no pilot? |
| 1:39.1 | Well, you send a drone up in the air. |
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