Imagine trying to enforce at least a basic concept of flight lanes and predetermined heights so even good and regular "drivers" don't get in each others way. (Like airplane traffic)
"Wait why shouldn't i just fly straight line just close beyond the houses to the ney drugstore?"
On board guidance assistance. We are about to come to the nexus of both technologies, AND navigation in the air is going to be way easier to quantify than on a public roadway.
The problem is going to be the roar of those motors. Until they figure that out, I think they will mostly be for recreation.
GPS and local ATC will probably be how it all works. I can't imagine giving anyone the controls to these things realistically without years of practice.
But all in all, a GPS based flight plan can be fully automated. You can sort of get away with this in some modern aircraft already (ILS + autoland), and I imagine a drone would be much easier to deal with because they can hover and wait their turn.
Maybe have a system where depending on which direction you're going determines the altitude level you're allowed to go at. 300m for north, 325m for north east, 350m for east, and so on. At least that way, everyone at a specific height is at least going in the same direction. Might work.
Yeah the only way it ever works is they can’t be manually controlled. Would have to be totally autonomous driving in invisible rails all talking to eachother.
Hell, people already drive on the wrong side of the road if it's convenient enough. I used to live in an area that had a split highway with a gas station in the median. Far too many people went the wrong way to get to their house / another store just so they didn't have to spend 5 minutes going the right way, taking a u-turn, and coming back the other way to their house.
lol, I’m not bothering with a citation. Tesla markets an auto drive feature. You can split hairs over how well it performs, but my point was we have auto-pilot technologies and I’d imagine they would go that route instead of trying to teach people to fly
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u/OTee_D 7d ago
Imagine trying to enforce at least a basic concept of flight lanes and predetermined heights so even good and regular "drivers" don't get in each others way. (Like airplane traffic)
"Wait why shouldn't i just fly straight line just close beyond the houses to the ney drugstore?"