In controlled airspace you would be right... but these things are being pitched as suburban/urban commute options operating at low altitude where there's no ATC. That means they have to deal with birds, the GPS-shielding effects of tall buildings, wind tunnels created by the same tall structures and a whole lot more.

The automation of air-transport at 30,000 feet is a whole lot different to transport at a few hundred feet over a busy metropolis and where there may be buildings higher than t he craft itself.

You nailed it!

We've had VTOL passenger transport for decades now, in the form of tried and proven technology: helicopters.

Right now a bunch of startups are trying to reinvent the industry by claiming "carbon zero" and "autonomous" when we know:

1. the market is *very* limited (ie: where are all the helicopter-based flying taxi services?)
2. the tech isn't ready (current battery tech isn't up to the task)
3. we don't trust autonomous sytems on the road so why would be trust them in the air?
4. regulators are still many years away from approving such things in Western nations
5. there is zero mitigation available for GPS failure (or malicious attack) and eVTOL craft don't autorotate in the event of power faulure.

Call me in 10 years time and we'll reconsider.

One word:

"Software as a service/subscription"

Okay, that's more than one word but if Microsoft says it's one word then you have no option but to believe them because when you run Windows, they *own* you!

(Smug grin, having been a satisfied Linux user for decades).

This can only go well (pfffft!)

Well, i think there is a lot of creative freedom in how the war was described...

IPhone 12 was launched in 2020, at a price of 799 USD. IPhone 15 was launched in 2023, at a price of....wait for it... 799 USD. The world of "let's make up facts" is very harmful for civil discourse and democracy.

You do - just don't buy a Roku. Buy an AppleTV instead.

YouTube doesn't seem to enforce its ban on downloads at all. I see *many* YT videos which include footage from other YT videos and the only way they got that was to download the video so as to include it in their own. One only has to look at they myriad of compilation "FAIL" videos to see this happening.

Even when the original creator files a DMCA claim against such videos, YT will often consider it "fair use" and not penalize the person who has clearly downloaded and then used that footage.

For YT to then come out claiming that it's against their TOS if AI systems do it is a bit rich.

Even less - the French TGV states that CO2 emissions per km per passenger is 3.2 g. For airplanes, a modern plane gives about 115 g of CO2 per passenger pr km. The French power mix is mostly nuclear, which would explain the low emissions.

You are the customer - unlike Google, where you are the product they sell. Homeassistant running on a Raspberry Pi works great, though - I'll definitely second that recommendation.

Bail should end in any case. Either, you should be in custody - e.g due to an ongoing investigation, flight danger, or being a danger to the public. If there is no good reason to keep you in jail, you shouldn't have to post bail.

The article is dated March 30th.

Doubt it. Boeing is big enough that safety concerns reflect upon air traffic in general. Doors falling off in the middle of the air etc results in fewer passengers and reduces the demand for planes. What he'd want is a gradual decline in the attractiveness of Boeing vs Airbus, corruption scandals, strategic missteps, etc - not scandals related to accidents or quality,