WanderingThoughts

And make other countries see clean tech as the patriotic choice

These articles also never mention how this is going to work in the fabric of a city.

Say optimistically a 15 second separation between vehicles, 4 passengers per vehicle, means one ¨sky-lane¨ can transport 60/15 * 60 * 4 => about 1000 people per lane. That´s worse than a car lane, and an order of magnitude behind bicycle lanes and subways. You can stack multiple lanes vertically, but then it becomes more fun with traffic control for take-off and landing and still a bicycle lane transports more people.

So far these things seem better as a city hopper, or used in a rural setting, but the current ones don´t have the range for that either.

Even in cyberpunk these flying cars are only for big corpos and the rich.

Getting caught

Let's see how fast China will be in becoming the cultural dominant one.

Miljaaar

The point is to give Russia the advantage and turn the countries of Europe all into vazal states to rule over them like an emperor. EU really doesn't like that plan of course.

It used to be a bully you could reason and work with, and that at least understood give and take. Now it's just a drunk bully, starting fights for whatever.

Big pal Putin didn't hesitate to use gas and oil as a weapon. Trump tries to do the same with trade and the dollar. Run away fast is the only answer.

Oh yeah, that time the USA kept lying about weapons of mass destruction found there and Washington not liking being called out by almost everyone.

China goes wolf warrior diplomacy from time so that's a given. It's what made many countries to make sure to not fully commit to trade with China.

Much greater models

It's Musk, so the new model is simply "the more money you have, the more you receive"