Volocopter has received regulatory approvals to begin several limited routes in the coming weeks around the Paris Olympics:

• Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport to Paris-Le Bourget airport – integrating successfully into the skies of Europe’s busiest airport
• Vertiport of Austerlitz barge to Paris Heliport – integrating a connection over the densely populated urban area of Paris
• Paris Heliport to Airfield of Saint-Cyr-l’École (Versailles) – validating the route potential for tourism use cases.

This is all to show that we won’t be waiting 5 or 10 years before this next generation of air transportation becomes a reality. It’s happening, this year, in Paris, with Volocopter.

Cheaper, Safer, and Faster Than a Taxi

Current expectations are that the initial cost per mile for one passenger will be in the $3-6 range. That’s on the higher end of the going rate of a New York City taxi cab.

Once a service scales to regular flights throughout the day, the prices will drop closer to $3 a mile very quickly. This will put these kinds of air transportation services within the reach of a large population.

And the real kicker will be when autonomous flight technology is adopted. Two companies in the USA, Joby and Archer were smart to pursue their certifications for piloted eVTOLs. It’s a faster path toward commercialization and allows the companies to scale their manufacturing.

Autonomous flights can follow later. The impact, of course, is to further reduce the cost per mile. So that $3 will drop likely to $1 with full autonomy, making a ticket for the 13-mile journey from Wall Street to Newark just a $13 ride. Even at $2 a mile per seat, it quickly becomes a mass-market form of air transportation.

Autonomous technology is what will transform the way we travel, not just on surface roads and highways, but across the skies.

In Jesus’ coming Millennial Kingdom all of this technology will be in use. Capitalism and the free market economy will be the order of the day as given in your Bible. Simply put, capitalism is nothing more than believing in private individual ownership. e.g. one of the commandments is “Don’t steal” which means we are meant to own stuff (http://www.millennialkingdom.net).