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If it would even be legal to fly around with this drones aren't we just moving the traffic from the ground in the air? Simple crashes or driving mistakes will

If it would even be legal to fly around with this drones aren't we just moving the traffic from the ground in the air? Simple crashes or driving mistakes will cause more deaths. So we would have to remote control them and synchronize everything and have some fallback software in case of connectivity issues. But using this drones could be very useful in other scenarios but piloted by people with a bit more experience/training then a beginner driver.

rootlocus 8y ago
Compared to roads, air has vertical space, as well as much more horizontal space. Also, you wouldn't need remote controlling if drones can sense and avoid each other.
- simion314 8y ago
  You have the horizontal and vertical space but you don't travel between random points, say most of the traffic will head to the same N destination points so you have many vehicles converging at the same landing zone, or many leaving that zone. The problem with drones sensing each other is that the data is not enough, the AI would need to predict where all the other drones are heading , otherwise we have the same cases like with Tesla and Uber where the AI will ignore many objects including stopped trucks and big concrete walls. So a solution could be to force the drones to broadcast the location and velocity vector and other information , that is also a complex topic, bad actors, bugged drones, privacy issues, so many things can go wrong. Also about the vertical space, you don't want to fly to high either, you would waste energy so many vehicles would fly as low as possible so you would have a big number of vehicles at a similar altitude.
  - mannykannot 8y ago
    There are additional problems related to landing space. A flying car is inevitably going to need much more space than a car of the same capacity, and when, as often happens, a lot of people want to be at the same place at the same time, there would probably have to be end-to-end traffic control where you cannot start your journey without a guaranteed place to land. Being in an electric flying car looking for a parking space would add a new dimension to range anxiety.

rootlocus 8y ago

Compared to roads, air has vertical space, as well as much more horizontal space. Also, you wouldn't need remote controlling if drones can sense and avoid each other.

simion314 8y ago
You have the horizontal and vertical space but you don't travel between random points, say most of the traffic will head to the same N destination points so you have many vehicles converging at the same landing zone, or many leaving that zone. The problem with drones sensing each other is that the data is not enough, the AI would need to predict where all the other drones are heading , otherwise we have the same cases like with Tesla and Uber where the AI will ignore many objects including stopped trucks and big concrete walls. So a solution could be to force the drones to broadcast the location and velocity vector and other information , that is also a complex topic, bad actors, bugged drones, privacy issues, so many things can go wrong. Also about the vertical space, you don't want to fly to high either, you would waste energy so many vehicles would fly as low as possible so you would have a big number of vehicles at a similar altitude.
- mannykannot 8y ago
  There are additional problems related to landing space. A flying car is inevitably going to need much more space than a car of the same capacity, and when, as often happens, a lot of people want to be at the same place at the same time, there would probably have to be end-to-end traffic control where you cannot start your journey without a guaranteed place to land. Being in an electric flying car looking for a parking space would add a new dimension to range anxiety.