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I can see this as the "penthouse to penthouse" service of choice - and I for one would love to tour manhattan on one.

Likelihood of licensing some moron with a tank full of jet fuel to buzz above thousands of pedestrians- about zero % :-(

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> Likelihood of licensing some moron with a tank full of jet fuel to buzz above thousands of pedestrians- about zero %

Well, in the US there are plenty of morons with licensed fire arms, so why would jetpacks be an obstacle?

>with licensed fire arms

Even more with unlicensed fire arms.

cars are a better proxy than firearms in this case: accidents are not the same as violence, intention counts...

It's for the better- even ignoring the risk of physical harm, these motors are loud. Cities would be orders of magnitude more obnoxious if you had the upper class constantly buzzing overhead in vehicles that made a Harley-Davidson sound like a soft purr.

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