Public acceptance remains the most significant obstacle to establishing successful urban air mobility (UAM) operations, according to leaders of the Community Air Mobility Initiative (CAMI), which was formed in 2019 to stimulate constructive dialogue between the industry and communities where they would like to launch service. CAMI co-executive director Yolanka Wulff told a March 3 press briefing organized by the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) that companies seeking to introduce eVTOL aircraft need to work harder to demonstrate the benefits they will deliver and prove that they will not have an adverse impact.
“If this [UAM] is just seen as flying limos for the rich, the 0.1 percent, it won’t win public acceptance; it’s got to make sense for the general public,” Wulff told reporters. She said that eVTOL aircraft developers and service providers, “need to start a conversation [with cities and states] and recognize that it must be two-way and that there needs to be a balance between hype and realism.”
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