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> collision rate will be much much lower? I agree that colliding with other flying cars is going to be rare. The issue is that when there's a failure of any k
by crispyambulance 7y ago
> collision rate will be much much lower?
I agree that colliding with other flying cars is going to be rare.
The issue is that when there's a failure of any kind, you can't just "pull-over" in a flying car. You need to land.
Flying cars just aren't going to be a big market, IMHO, in the foreseeable future. Pilots need to be qualified, and even then, they need to be in a place that can truly accommodate flying vehicles-- the middle of nowhere. And if you're going to that, you might as well buy an actual plane rather than an all-in-one hot mess of a flying car.
- ghaff 7y ago>The issue is that when there's a failure of any kind, you can't just "pull-over" in a flying car. You need to land. Honestly, this (and noise/general nuisance factor) would seem to be the bigger issue than reliable autopilots, which presumably can be gotten to over time. If you scale up personal flying vehicles to mainstream use, even with a mandatory costly and rigorous maintenance schedule, it's hard not to believe that you'd have lots of these dropping out of the sky and causing fatalities and damage on a daily basis.