Works assuming the rooftops are roughly in line of sight. That is something I assumed not to be definitively true in the other comment…

You could say he murdered it.

Within cities?

Look, aircraft are Hella noisy and if stuff goes bad, they’ll smash into buildings. Using them for intra-urban transit is not safe. Besides, I don’t know if multicopters can autorotate^[1], which only adds to the safety concerns.

So why not bring it slightly closer to the ground. Maybe put the transportation device on a bridge or viaduct. And while you could put some stairs up from the streets, you may even choose to link buildings into them directly. Most tall buildings have lifts, after all.

Next, giving each building its own link into the system would be excessive. You can achieve 90 percent of the utility if you have larger entry hubs for multiple buildings, and expect people to walk the last mile.

Anyway, back to the vehicle, since a vehicle for a handful of people is rather inefficient, why not build the vehicles for many dozens of people? Why not build it to connect multiple vehicles? If you run, like, four of these, every five minutes, most people will be able to walk up any time and just go.

And to make that movement more efficient, let’s have our vehicles roll along a specifically designed path, optimised for minimal friction by using hard wheels on a hard surface.

There, I replaced the quadcopters with a train.

EDIT:
^[1]: According to one answered question on a StackExchange page, the answer to this question is probably no. Autorotation requires some magnitude of control of the pitch of your rotors, something that most multicopters do not have.

It does make me intrigued to see what’d happen if you could or did fit a multicopter with swashplates and pitch-adjustable rotors.

Take any tech bro take on transit, and if you try to perfect it, you’ll almost always end up with a train.

It must be a rule on the internet:

There’s always a relevant xkcd.

… it’s very hard experimenting when you’ve no idea of potency or dosages.

This.

Fun thing I bumped into a few weeks ago: the guy who’s credited with inventing LSD tried a bit to see how it worked and how it felt. But he had no idea just how ridiculously potent LSD is. I forgot the exact numbers, but I do recall the ballpark. So he had a Fermi-estimated 100 μg while he only needed like 10 μg for a good time, so not only did he have the first known LSD trip, he had the first known bad trip.

After reading this, for some reason, the phrase “cryogenic hellfire” lives rent-free in my brain.

I’m thinking There Is No Planet B by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Half year day, half year night only really holds on the poles I guess. And it goes paired with a long twilight in between.

Or at least by Big Penis Worm

Sorry mate, Tom couldn’t make it, so here we have Bill.

Weather update: it’s raining rocks from outer space

Orange? Wait until Dutch football fans hear that. Would make NL during a Euro Cup or World Cup an absolutely ✨ fabulous ✨place xD

Use chapstick

How I get around that: Wait until my girl uses hers, then kiss her.

It’s a bit of a running meme between us.

Wonder what that’d look like to a layman. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Awesome? Beastly? Crushing? Deafening? Ear-shattering? Fuck that’s loud?

Relevant xkcd about these xkcd’s:

If we’re going to assume the copyright of the body would rest with the first Homo Sapiens, that was tens of thousands of years ago, so even under Jamaican copyright (life of the author + 95 years), that’d be public domain.

Plagiarise away!

Mok

Awh.

~ brought to you by the Ornithologists & Car Enthusiasts United.

That’s one way to describe the guy, indeed.