Public acceptance of flights in autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is increasingly emerging as a key enabler, or a potential stumbling block, for urban air mobility. So far, however, there has been little in the way of published research gauging where public attitudes currently stand on this issue.
The public flight demonstration of Volocopter’s eVTOL aircraft on September 14 in the German city of Stuttgart provided a prime opportunity to hear from prospective air taxi consumers and opponents. The opportunity was seized by Stuttgart’s University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart), which surveyed 1,203 members of the public among several thousand who attended the Vision Smart City event. Around 20,000 people had the opportunity to view the Volocopter aircraft on the ground and some 12,000 witnessed the flight in front of the Mercedes-Benz Museum in a city rich in Germany’s automotive heritage.
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