00:00When they launched the helicopter service, people thought of it as like, oh yeah, that's for rich
00:04people to go like to the Hamptons or something like that. And I think it probably started that
00:09way. But now if you look at the price that the Blade helicopter services, it's only $195 to go
00:16from Manhattan to the airport, which is way less than probably a lot of people would imagine to
00:21take a helicopter ride. And I think the goal when this eVTOL air taxi market really takes off is
00:28going to be similar to get as many of these flights going as possible, thereby bring down
00:32the price and make it more affordable for a lot of people. The FAA hasn't certified a new type of
00:37aircraft since the 1940s. So it's going to be natural that a lot of people are going to look
00:42at these things and be like, whoa, this thing is really funky looking. I'm not getting in this
00:46thing. And if you talk to proponents of these aircrafts, what they say is that they could be
00:51safer than a lot of the traditional helicopters, for instance.
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