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Could say the same about the wright brothers in the early 1900s. Longevity of the flight and safe operation can only improve in time. The question is does anyone care. People will be scared of it and if not does it offer anything over cars? It's not like you can fly it over private property , there will be laws that regulate where you can fly it.

Just give me hyperloop tunnels to overlap subways and freeways and I am set. Especially with better bike lanes.

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> Could say the same about the wright brothers in the early 1900s.

Yes, you could. But that’s not actually an argument that jet packs will follow a same development path, it’s just survivor bias in action.

They may not, I was just saying we don't know what developments will be made in the future.

Aircraft were improved immensely by new materials since then. But jetpacks are still impractical. Might we see the same level of improvements again in the next century ? (And even if we do, wouldn't "super planes/copters" still be ahead of jetpacks ?)

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