Go inside the secret world of air taxis with a look at Joby Aviation’s manufacturing facility. Following regulation from the Federal Aviation Administration and its counterparts from around the world, these electric vertical takeoff and landing (aka eVTOL) vehicles could take off as early as 2025. Lexy Savvides takes you inside Joby’s Marina, California composite manufacturing process and then flies an air taxi simulator
Read the CNET article for more info:
Inside Joby’s Air Taxi Facility, I Saw the Future of Air Travel Take Flight
0:00 How quiet is Joby’s Air Taxi?
0:15 Flying cars were the stuff of science fiction
0:25 Joby is ramping up production
1:04 How the Air Taxi works
2:28 The production process
3:55 What makes the Joby so quiet?
5:24 Getting approval from the FAA
5:38 Lexy takes a test flight
7:32 Once approved how will Joby Air Taxi service work
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@hunterhart1
October 19, 2024 at 12:36 pm
I’ll hop in for test trials
@thedoublep434
October 19, 2024 at 12:52 pm
Screw air taxis, I want one to fly myself!
@TheCiardellas
October 19, 2024 at 1:00 pm
I really love this company
@matheus8530
October 19, 2024 at 1:02 pm
Can we stop? It is time to stop fooling around and do something serious
@micham8278
October 19, 2024 at 1:03 pm
As a plane and helicopter pilot that spent years learning and mastering flight, this is quite insulting to watch.
@livingroomguitarist7
October 19, 2024 at 1:30 pm
That’s what technology does. Makes what was once difficult now easy to do.
@micham8278
October 19, 2024 at 8:22 pm
@@livingroomguitarist7 It’ll replace all of our jobs in the near future.
@gusvazquez8931
October 19, 2024 at 1:23 pm
He said “that’s how easy it is to fly a helicopter”. NOT! All the variables: collective, throttle control, anti torque, cyclic pitch control, etc. coordination is paramount and very difficult or everyone would be doing it 🫤
@davidcoxon4710
October 19, 2024 at 1:44 pm
Yesterday in London, I sat in my room looking at the sky, with a huge beautiful post full moon. There were two or three helicopters ruining the sky. I sat there and watched the perfect Oct night looking at the sky, empty blue, memorising with it’s space that is free for everyone. Then I thought we are approaching the era when it is about to end.
The human race must and will progress. But in that progression we also lose much. And the days that the night skies are filled with these things are something I look forward to with utter dread.
@sebastianzukowski7985
October 19, 2024 at 2:25 pm
Wasn’t similar with cars? E.g. you had a house, a cottage and an open field with wilderness. Now in many places there are motorways and other roads
@davidcoxon4710
October 19, 2024 at 2:30 pm
@@sebastianzukowski7985 most human beings don’t want to live next to a motorway or major road😂
@sebastianzukowski7985
October 19, 2024 at 2:31 pm
Of course they don’t, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. These also appeared over time, same as flying vehicles will.
@davidcoxon4710
October 19, 2024 at 2:34 pm
@@sebastianzukowski7985 I’m in stoke Newington looking at the moon and a clear sky. It gives me peace and freedom of spirit to see that space. In 10-20 years that will be gone. I’ve dreaded it for a long time to be honest as it’s that close.
We need some escape from a city and the sky is the best we have
@seanhardman1964
October 19, 2024 at 1:51 pm
Thats a helicopter plane
@DigitalRosePodcast
October 19, 2024 at 2:13 pm
Until a flock of birds come out of no where
@dimitrylanez
October 19, 2024 at 2:54 pm
I see 🤔
So u want investors
@lotusflowerrr
October 19, 2024 at 3:01 pm
So a helicopter but quieter
@symply_ajay
October 19, 2024 at 3:31 pm
Can it autorotate like a helicopter?
@Bodan_Takanuva
October 19, 2024 at 4:04 pm
It has wings for gliding but it can’t autorotate.
@symply_ajay
October 19, 2024 at 4:54 pm
@@Bodan_Takanuva well, that sucks.
@jpcarsmedia
October 19, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Gunship version and watch the stock soar!
@allaboutdrones8070
October 19, 2024 at 3:46 pm
I think the FAA may have a slight issue with several parts – 1. Pilot certification 2. Aircraft certification 3. landing zones etc (so called vertical ports) just use helicopter pads lol – charging stations for these and the infrastructure all yet to be built… now goto a Tesla car charge area and watch how many cars need to be there for 40 mins to charge the car. Now think if you have so called air taxis – How many will be able to charge and turn around these so called air taxis in reasonable time etc All possible to overcome but it needs time and 2025 is probably not enough time…
@user-ed7dy1mq9u
October 19, 2024 at 4:45 pm
Carbon fiber manufacturing is cool, but it’s been around for 50 years and not exactly new tech or this aircraft. Same with flight simulators.
I was hoping they spend more time on the stuff I was really curious about, but they rushed through it. How exactly is it quieter, is it spinning slower? Is it the blade tips? How quiet is it? Like what are the decibels? How many engines can it loose and still fly? How about when it’s hovering? I have lots of doubts because on my small drone, any engine failure causes it to flip and fall out of the sky. I would love to have seen test video to prove it can still fly with those failures.
@SuperChicken666
October 19, 2024 at 5:05 pm
My question is, if I’m fabulously wealthy, can I buy one?🚁
@yottabytego
October 19, 2024 at 5:08 pm
Oh great, the future of transportation—brought to a screeching halt by a pigeon. Glad to know my flying Uber can be taken out by a feathered missile.
@FriedaFuzzypaws-f3h
October 19, 2024 at 5:11 pm
Canny believe they named it “Joby”
@biggeststeppa1
October 19, 2024 at 5:35 pm
Add 3 rows of seating and you’ve solved transportation and logistics in the developing world
@pleka
October 19, 2024 at 6:56 pm
1/3 less energy or 1/3 of the energy?
@gringofr06
October 19, 2024 at 7:31 pm
Ehang much better, invest before it’s too late
@Native722
October 19, 2024 at 7:42 pm
I wonder if Elon will get into this space as well.
@justinlange3214
October 19, 2024 at 9:13 pm
I think Elon was worried about thousands of these creating noise pollution over cities, so he started the boring company instead.
@JasonB808
October 19, 2024 at 7:46 pm
Not a taxi. These Giant Drones that can carry a few humans will not fix transportation for the masses. Its real goal is to be a cheaper alternative to helicopter. Still only rich people will be able to afford it. I think we will see Giant Drones ferry the rich over specific routes that avoid places with a lot of buildings or people on the ground.
@Allofussurvived
October 19, 2024 at 7:50 pm
All it has is propellers if that fails the wing 🪽 are useless
@urbanstrencan
October 20, 2024 at 12:36 am
Can’t wait to be able to actually use it in the public ❤❤❤
@dsp4392
October 20, 2024 at 1:11 am
There’s no way this thing will ever be faster than a car if its max range is only 160km. Better pivot to aerial sightseeing/tourism _quick_ .
@jimmyryan5880
October 20, 2024 at 3:42 am
Helicoper
@samtownshend
October 20, 2024 at 4:02 am
It’s very misleading to ignore the addition of their composite epoxy, making all the parts terrible for the environment. You’ll be making videos about how we scrap all the carbon composite parts in a few years…
@eemil333.
October 20, 2024 at 5:37 am
So they basically call a drone an air taxi and compare it to a car. Looks more like a helicopter but with a few more rotors to me..
@maximiliandegarnerinvonmon6457
October 20, 2024 at 8:13 am
It’s starting in bangalore 😊
@maximiliandegarnerinvonmon6457
October 20, 2024 at 8:16 am
Why does he sound like he’s asking a question every time he speaks 🤣🤣🤣
@SocialistSociopathPK442
October 20, 2024 at 8:20 am
When will india become like this
@garyvermaak9470
October 20, 2024 at 10:37 am
Airtaxis (private air charter) dates back to 1919, while the flight hailing app was in 2008 (Evolux) before Uber’s ridesharing app.
@TeslaSJC
October 20, 2024 at 12:04 pm
This is way too heavy complex and expensive they need to do better
@chethiyaprasanga
October 20, 2024 at 12:30 pm
When tesla comes this business.. near days.. another fear to this company 😢
@tylerhill9483
October 20, 2024 at 12:37 pm
I own 13k shares of this. Going to try to get to minimum of 20k. I hope the price doesn’t skyrocket too soon before I can get some more. I think this will be a 10 bagger within the next decade.
@flinx
October 21, 2024 at 3:52 am
Do you own Archer shares too? If not but you compared the stocks, why do you favor Joby?
@tylerhill9483
October 21, 2024 at 8:57 am
@@flinx I don’t own Archer. I don’t know what you mean, I didn’t compare the stocks? I think Joby is better, and my bet is Joby will dominate the eVOTL space. Stanley Drukenmiller owns Joby too, but he doesn’t own Archer, albeit his position in Joby is small. Stanley is a very smart Billionaire investor and I respect him a lot.
@flinx
October 21, 2024 at 12:36 pm
@@tylerhill9483 I see. I asked because Joby and Archer will be competitors after eVTOL deliveries commence. So anytime someone thinks only one of the companies is the better bet, I’m interested in understanding why.
@grasuh
October 20, 2024 at 3:14 pm
Coming in 2025… 🤣🤣🤣
@thisisreallife9026
October 20, 2024 at 8:33 pm
So it is a complicated helicpoter, got it!
@JB-gr6om
October 20, 2024 at 11:17 pm
Not me.
@JB-gr6om
October 20, 2024 at 11:19 pm
So when it crashes the carbon fibers will protect me? 😂
@JB-gr6om
October 20, 2024 at 11:21 pm
Wow it looks like the Osprey… which has crashed many times. 😂
@undeze
October 21, 2024 at 12:10 am
I would like to have heard more about the FAA aircraft certification progress. What are the contingency procedures in the Joby for critical systems failures? What happens if a motor fails? What happens if a propeller gets stuck in a horizontal or non-vertical position? Does the aircraft then have to land like a conventional airplane? If so, where? How much battery reserves (time) does it require at its planned landing time? Lots of questions. Hopefully the answers are coming…?
@hydroworldoutlook5769
October 21, 2024 at 12:59 pm
All good questions that need answers before I pay them a dime to fly me anywhere.
@bryangopan
October 21, 2024 at 1:00 am
Dubai baby
@Groegselmaschupp
October 21, 2024 at 6:18 am
Airtaxis exist! They are called Helicopters…..
@haterhayder
October 21, 2024 at 7:47 am
The CEO hasnt answered a single question as it was asked lol
@CNET
October 21, 2024 at 10:35 am
Read more on CNET.com: Inside Joby’s Air Taxi Facility, I Saw the Future of Air Travel Take Flight
@hydroworldoutlook5769
October 21, 2024 at 1:07 pm
Thanks for the update, @CNET! 🙂
@hydroworldoutlook5769
October 21, 2024 at 1:01 pm
Surely we will see these “air taxis” take flight only in the bigger, busier cities first as airport transfer vehicles before they trickle down to those smaller cities and rural areas that have fewer established transit services and really need them (like Las Vegas, NV and Emporia, VA). Los Angeles and New York City will, inevitably, be first in line. But I will keep following updates on the service, and we will see how well it performs in the transit/travel market.
@frankmaclow2709
October 21, 2024 at 7:47 pm
No thank you
@mofosoto
October 21, 2024 at 8:10 pm
Brought to you by the people that have never heard of the invention called the helicopter