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It’s all unmanned unfortunately. Still waiting for them to demo at least a dummy payload like Joby did a few months back.

Also, Joby, Ehang, and Volocopter are much further ahead in the sense they have done point to point or are building out the factory (same time last year Ehang got hit by being called a scam by Citron, however).

From what I read, rumor is the big issue is battery density which is holding Lilium from being viable. We shall see!

Also, Joby is most likely the one to look at to track the progress of this air taxi segment since they have just Spac’ed and their aircraft is the most conventional.

Cool, but the event is not unmannedly flying around in a circle for 1 minute but to transport up to 7 people over several hundred miles.

From those videos, it's difficult to be sure those are full size prototypes and not scale models.