Air taxis
Recently I read that Air taxis will be introduced in Dubai shortly. These taxis will have pre-defined paths and will be controlled by ground controllers. The day is not far when pilot controlled air taxis will also be introduced. And I dread that day, if this happens in India.
A certain high profile individual who likes his drinks, in excess of his metabolic abilities, has just left a high end resto bar. He can hardly walk in a straight line and has to be supported by the bar bouncers, who escort him to his latest acquisition, an air car. It's his good fortune that his pilot is accompanying him. “Let's go, Bosco, let's go home”, so saying he sits in the back seat. The air car takes off and soon the air car is flying just above the skyscrapers of the sleeping metropolis. Soon, the Richie rich boy, enamoured by the sights of the beautiful city commands the pilot to hand over the tiller to him. The pilot hesitates and tries to convince him, not to steer the air car but to no avail. Finally, he is, but, an employee who needs his job desperately. He hands over the controls to his master. With a twinkle in his eyes, Richie rich takes control of the tiller and takes the air car higher. It's a very late hour and at this hour there are only a few other air cars in the skies. There should not be any problem, thinks the pilot. Just as this thought enters the pilot’s mind, the alcohol works its magic. It leaves the safe confines of Richie’s stomach, fights against the liver’s de-toxifying abilities, enters the small intestines and percolates into the blood stream. Within minutes, it reaches the heart and brain and Richie starts swaying, loses control over the tiller, the air car loses height rapidly, crashing through a skyscraper window, the impact killing three occupants of the house instantly, while two survive, albeit with injuries. They see the famous personality stumbling out and going into the back seat of the air car…However there is minimum damage to the air car itself, and Richie and his pilot escape under the cover of darkness.
20 years have passed since that accident happened. Richie is more famous now. And he has successfully fought all court battles. His well paid lawyers argued that, in the era of air cars, people sleeping near windows were being careless and irresponsible. And more decisively, they proved that the victims had died a natural death before the air car crashed into their bedroom.
May God bless India and India never sees these air cars…
Yatindra Tawde
Recently I read that Air taxis will be introduced in Dubai shortly. These taxis will have pre-defined paths and will be controlled by ground controllers. The day is not far when pilot controlled air taxis will also be introduced. And I dread that day, if this happens in India.
A certain high profile individual who likes his drinks, in excess of his metabolic abilities, has just left a high end resto bar. He can hardly walk in a straight line and has to be supported by the bar bouncers, who escort him to his latest acquisition, an air car. It's his good fortune that his pilot is accompanying him. “Let's go, Bosco, let's go home”, so saying he sits in the back seat. The air car takes off and soon the air car is flying just above the skyscrapers of the sleeping metropolis. Soon, the Richie rich boy, enamoured by the sights of the beautiful city commands the pilot to hand over the tiller to him. The pilot hesitates and tries to convince him, not to steer the air car but to no avail. Finally, he is, but, an employee who needs his job desperately. He hands over the controls to his master. With a twinkle in his eyes, Richie rich takes control of the tiller and takes the air car higher. It's a very late hour and at this hour there are only a few other air cars in the skies. There should not be any problem, thinks the pilot. Just as this thought enters the pilot’s mind, the alcohol works its magic. It leaves the safe confines of Richie’s stomach, fights against the liver’s de-toxifying abilities, enters the small intestines and percolates into the blood stream. Within minutes, it reaches the heart and brain and Richie starts swaying, loses control over the tiller, the air car loses height rapidly, crashing through a skyscraper window, the impact killing three occupants of the house instantly, while two survive, albeit with injuries. They see the famous personality stumbling out and going into the back seat of the air car…However there is minimum damage to the air car itself, and Richie and his pilot escape under the cover of darkness.
20 years have passed since that accident happened. Richie is more famous now. And he has successfully fought all court battles. His well paid lawyers argued that, in the era of air cars, people sleeping near windows were being careless and irresponsible. And more decisively, they proved that the victims had died a natural death before the air car crashed into their bedroom.
May God bless India and India never sees these air cars…
Yatindra Tawde
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