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Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet by drspacemonkey on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:27PM (#14168594)
They're aiming to make it a taxi service. You wouldn't have to own one or deal with maintenance, you'd just pay the $X for your trip. And if it's fully autonomous (which it appears to be), then you -- as a passenger -- wouldn't have to be licensed any more than if you were flying commercial. I have no idea what sort of regulatory hurdles would exist or how easily they'd be overcome. But the fact that they've already built the plane would indicate that they've already taken that into consideration.
Re:Lilium – Electric vertical take-⁠off and landing jet by dragonwriter on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:31PM (#14168638)
> And if it's fully autonomous (which it appears to be),

It's clearly not, since they describe situations in which onboard systems would provide notifications to "the pilot" directing them to land the plane.