dgshoe asked:

What do you think of the Brazilian government trying to mess produce electric helicopters as a form of intra-urban public transport?

amtrak-official answered:

Is that a joke… this is satire right, you have to be joking, this can’t be real

[gacorley]

Fact Check: Real

Brazil's Embraer plans to build electric flying taxi factory near Sao Paulo

Embraer says it will build electric aircraft with hopes they will take flight from 2026.

bbc.com

I do not want to need an air-traffic control within the dang city, TYVM.

[dgshoe]

There already is one? Rich people take choppers inside large cities to avoid spending time in traffic with us peasants.

[blunt-force-therapy]

So what's the problem here? What I'm seeing is another way to ease congestion in a hopefully environmentally sustainable way

[amtrak-official]

Helicopters as mass transit are not environmentally sustainable, all they do is bring congestion into our skies and could very easily be used to kill people