Everyone said that about Uber and cars... “unqualified” drivers and standard vehicles belonging to private owners.
The federal government didn’t fight against it...
CASA will have to throw a lot of money at it to stop it. If Uber has a lot of cash it will be hard to stop them.
The difference is that Uber taxis use cars that have already been developed for 120 years and drivers who have been licenced by a state authority. There is no risk to doing this, because nothing new was introduced, just a different way of calling for the ride. An Uber can call in to a fuel station for a top-up in 5 minutes, and there are a squillion of them. An Uber can have an emergency power failure and just pull over to the side of the road. An Uber can (usually) carry 4 passengers.
Uber-Jetson needs a totally new aircraft to be invented, tested, certified and produced. Batteries can't cut it yet. Propulsion systems need to be scaled up to carry 4 or 5 POB. Reliability is yet to be created.
It needs a totally new airspace classification to be developed, tested and accepted, by CA$A / AsA and the public.
It needs a radical development of collision avoidance and guidance to be invented.
It needs the public to accept vertical takeoff aircraft buzzing at 500' and landing in new places - the NIMBY group will stop that, same as they have stopped helipad development and use.
It will NEVER happen, except in glossy CG videos to lure in gullible investors.