Drone-Taxis?

The topic came up today, via our regional major airport in Frankfurt (about 30 minutes away from my house).  FRAPORT, the company, runs the airport (as a private entity).

The management folks at the airport have this nifty idea.....they want to take up the idea of a drone-taxi service....basically a small helicopter-like vehicle.....no pilot....big enough for two guys and two medium cases.

The process here?  Totally unknown, and on the cutting edge of technology.

One assumes that a large courtyard in the city of Frankfurt would be set aside, and a drone-vehicle service set up with three or four of these drone-taxis ready to take off.  You'd walk out to the vehicle....load up.....a signal would set the drone to turn on, and off you'd go on a 8-minute ride to a pad area on the east side of the runway, and you'd enter security for your flight.

Fuel? No one says much, but it might be battery-driven. 

Cost?  Unknown.  I would imagine that they'd try to make this reasonable and in the 100-Euro range per person.  Currently in a regular taxi, from mid or east Frankfurt, you'd be talking about 35-Euro. 

Time?  Well, this is the odd factor.  You can already walk into the train station and board the subway car to the airport....getting there in roughly 20 minutes.  So I don't see a big positive over this deal.

The safety factor....with the helicopter pilot?  You'd have to go and convince the public that it's 100-percent safe and nothing bad can happen.  For some reason, I just don't see 95-percent of Germans buying off on that safety idea. 

Could this expand out to Wiesbaden?  No one suggests that but if it worked for a 8-minute flight from Frankfurt-City to the airport.....why not a 16-minute flight from Wiesbaden to the airport?  Would I pay 100 Euro to reach the airport?  No....since I can do the subway ride for around eight Euro....why use the drone?

The curious thing I see is this door opening up where you could buy a drone-helicopter, and set the pick-up and deliver aspects into the software (say in 2040 for example), and never be qualified as a pilot.  Each morning, I'd walk out to the drone and have it deliver me to the office.  Each night, I'd return the same way.  It just looks to me like a big door is opening with tons of potential....way down the line.