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You're thinking too narrowly. - Solve traffic - Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF - Buy a mansion in Modesto, commute to Palo Alto - The views! These will

by bobsil1 10y ago

You're thinking too narrowly. - Solve traffic - Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF - Buy a mansion in Modesto, commute to Palo Alto - The views! These will be VTOL, electric, autonomous air taxis, not road-drivable cars.

sAuronas 10y ago
+1 travel as the crow flies from Oakland to Mountain View in a fraction of the time. Pagether
amelius 10y ago
> The views! Obviously, these will be blocked by swarms of flying cars.
- bobsil1 10y ago
  Long after they're blocked by swarms of delivery drones.
  - knz 10y ago
    I'm skeptical about delivery drones for this reason. Between the noise, security concerns, and visual pollution it will be hard to implement mass adoption of UAV's for delivery.
    - bobsil1 10y ago
      You can run the motors out of phase to cancel noise.
      - mannykannot 10y ago
        It doesn't work.
    - tracker1 10y ago
      I could see delivery drones for last-mile drop offs... imagine delivery trucks as automated machines with a small swarm of drones (4-6) per truck.. the truck drives a route on the main street(s), while the drones do the drop-off to the door. It could work in that scenario... My biggest thought for drones, is it won't work from the distribution centers, simply because they are too far out from a lot of the drop off locations.. but combined with trucks, you could have the trucks drive less in-out, and drones for drop off. Would need a handler in addition to a driver though, depending on automation capability. This would also need to be supplemented with uber-like service for deliveries that don't fit well for drone drops.
beambot 10y ago
> - Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF Or we could be more ecologically and energy conscious...
- base698 10y ago
  Like the people currently taking private jets and helicopters!
cooper12 10y ago
Do people really believe that flying cars would solve traffic? Now all the traffic is in the sky! And thanks for ruining everyone else's view with your cars. Not to mention flying cars would be extremely hazardous depending on the height. You'd pretty much be required to create specific airways and means of signaling at busy locations. Congratulations, you just created another layer of roads.
- bobsil1 10y ago
  You can stack the traffic. Delivery drones will kill the view anyway. You can build in passive safety + have them follow freeways.

by bobsil1 10y ago

sAuronas 10y ago

+1 travel as the crow flies from Oakland to Mountain View in a fraction of the time. Pagether

amelius 10y ago

> The views! Obviously, these will be blocked by swarms of flying cars.

bobsil1 10y ago
Long after they're blocked by swarms of delivery drones.
- knz 10y ago
  I'm skeptical about delivery drones for this reason. Between the noise, security concerns, and visual pollution it will be hard to implement mass adoption of UAV's for delivery.
  - bobsil1 10y ago
    You can run the motors out of phase to cancel noise.
    - mannykannot 10y ago
      It doesn't work.
  - tracker1 10y ago
    I could see delivery drones for last-mile drop offs... imagine delivery trucks as automated machines with a small swarm of drones (4-6) per truck.. the truck drives a route on the main street(s), while the drones do the drop-off to the door. It could work in that scenario... My biggest thought for drones, is it won't work from the distribution centers, simply because they are too far out from a lot of the drop off locations.. but combined with trucks, you could have the trucks drive less in-out, and drones for drop off. Would need a handler in addition to a driver though, depending on automation capability. This would also need to be supplemented with uber-like service for deliveries that don't fit well for drone drops.

beambot 10y ago

> - Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF Or we could be more ecologically and energy conscious...

base698 10y ago
Like the people currently taking private jets and helicopters!

cooper12 10y ago

Do people really believe that flying cars would solve traffic? Now all the traffic is in the sky! And thanks for ruining everyone else's view with your cars. Not to mention flying cars would be extremely hazardous depending on the height. You'd pretty much be required to create specific airways and means of signaling at busy locations. Congratulations, you just created another layer of roads.

bobsil1 10y ago
You can stack the traffic. Delivery drones will kill the view anyway. You can build in passive safety + have them follow freeways.