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Q get flying cars. When can, I mean, that's, let's just get to breast tax. This is all anybody wants to know. When can I go? From Manhattan to JFK. When can I go from San Francisco to Oakland airport? When is this going to happen? And is it going to happen in the United States first? Or is it going to happen in the UAE or Saudi or maybe China?
A The hardest part about bringing these aircrafts to market are, is the certification. Like we have to prove that these aircrafts are really safe. It's not, you can't blame the regulators. It's not a regulatory thing. They actually have to be very safe and reliable. So the rules got put in place, but the most important thing that happened in the most recent history was that President Trump issued an executive order that was fast tracking the, the, the program through the regulators and really starting to create a platform for us to launch. And so they are now Five cities going to be announced in the first quarter, and then we'll start flying in the summer, and that will be the first time you'll see these aircrafts flying in around the cities on a regular basis. That will allow the general public to get comfortable with this, and they will certify us sometime after that, because the political side of this is not a Democratic-Republican thing. It's a, consumers have to feel comfortable with this. They have to work with this.
AI assessment note: “Five cities going to be announced in the first quarter, and then we'll start flying”
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Q thousand of these things flying around, let's, let's just take a place, uh, in Menlo Park, California, um, Are they going to be forced to have very specific sort of like air highways that they have to adhere to? Or what is the best thinking right now in terms of how the regulatory bodies are going to sort of enable you guys to actually fly commercially as quickly as possible?
A If we, if we just take a step back, the product exists, they're called helicopters and a helicopter is actually way more complex than what we're building. We're actually building a much more simplified version. Of what exists. It's safer. It's fully redundant. And so it should inspire confidence for people to, to want to come and take these vehicles. The way they'll start though, is going to be really slow. If you think about every major city in the world, they have hospitals. Those hospitals have helicopters. This product exists everywhere. So if you took all three of us, you took our most bullish estimates that we have and you triple them, we still would not even replace helicopters. So to get to the point where you're asking thousands of vehicles in the air over one city or even hundreds is pretty far away. We could all deploy tens of thousands of vehicles. We could, the three of us be trillion dollar companies, and there still would not be thousand dollar. Well, hopefully there still would not be, you know, thousands of vehicles in the air, but to make the product really, really great, you do want liquidity. You do want a lot of vehicles in on dense routes. So you don't have to worry about, is it available? It's not like an Uber, right? You just, it's thumbs up. It's available or it's thumbs down. It's not available. It doesn't matter what seat you get. It saves you time. T…
AI assessment note: “thousands of vehicles in the air over one city or even hundreds is pretty far away”
