Budapest residents are quite welcoming towards urban air mobility vehicles

More than two-thirds of Budapest residents are open to the use of urban air mobility vehicles, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology said on Sunday, citing an international survey.

The survey commissioned by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) involving six major European cities found that the majority of Hungarian respondents would be most likely to use UAM technologies in emergency situations.

More than half of them saw potential in the use of unmanned helicopter drones to airlift people to hospital. Drones could also be used to transport doctors or help with disaster management, they said.

Responding to questions specifically about drones, 63 percent of Budapest residents said they could be used in the home delivery of groceries or other products.

Hungarian respondents were the biggest supporters of having delivery drones land in people’s yards or on other private property.

Budapesters named reduced traffic as the biggest benefit to using drones, and the violation of privacy as their number one concern.