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Re:The High-Stakes Race to Build the World’s First Flying Taxi by starpilot on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:43PM (#21457035)
> Both are much simpler than an helicopter

They are mechanically simpler, but aerodynamically and electrically vastly more complex. These designs are only possibly due to modern engineering, otherwise they would have been invented before the helicopter.

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Re:The High-Stakes Race to Build the World’s First Flying Taxi by marcosdumay on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:03AM (#21463232)
It's mechanical complexity that brings unreliability and high maintenance.

Electrical complexity is more reliable by orders of magnitude, and aerodynamics won't fail mid-flight.

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