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Yes that are! There are places on this earth where travel is prohibitive, and air transport will open entire regions to development without destroying it with f
by timnetworks 4y ago
Yes that are! There are places on this earth where travel is prohibitive, and air transport will open entire regions to development without destroying it with freeways first.
- Mo3 4y agoRight. Having every random person fly around is an absolute regulatory and organizational nightmare, not to mention that only wealthy individuals will be able to afford this for the next decade. Meanwhile, catastrophic economical failure, food shortages, inflation and climate change are acutely threatening us, but at least some rich dudes can fly around to places without basic infrastructure, over the heads of the starving and struggling poorer quantiles, to “develop” them. Makes sense.
- panick21_ 4y agoYeah we should never have developed cars or computers. Toys for the rich.
- throwaway14356 4y agoWhen we run out of fuel and win the solar flair emp roulette that will be exactly what people will conclude. I will be sure to tell the hn story by the campfire.
- panick21_ 4y agoYeah the world would be so much better if we just lived in caves. Everybody would sit around and be so glad no rich people ever got access to better technology.
- throwaway14356 4y agohaving a car without fuel parked outside my cave would sure feel like we missed a turn. You have me wonder how one would explain the concept of rich people to the post apocalyptic generation. We.. ehh i mean they created a contract that says everything in the world may only be used by them and everyone else just agreed with it.
- squarefoot 4y ago> Having every random person fly around is an absolute regulatory and organizational nightmare I wouldn't be surprised at all if one day autonomous flight for low cost aircraft like this one would turn out to be much easier than autonomous drive for cars. I mean the computational problems behind it; energy requirements are of course a whole different story though, and will keep prices very high for quite some time, but I can envision a future in which autonomous flying aircraft can talk each other to avoid collisions and/or arrange taking off or landing from/to shared reduced space.
- Mo3 4y agoI agree, but that is way into the future. Cars are not nearly able to do this, and they only operate in two dimensions. Aircraft operate in three dimensions and are affected by more factors than cars such as wind and weather.
- more_corn 4y agoAutopilot for air is probably far easier. Take off, land, fly straight. Begin listing the functions for autonomous car. I’ll wait.
- squarefoot 4y ago> Cars are not nearly able to do this, and they only operate in two dimensions. True but they depend on roads that are built all different from each other, full of irregular shapes and surprises, bumps, pedestrians, bicycles, absent, broken or different signs when traveling to other counties, etc.
- throwaway14356 4y agonot sure what to do about tge later part but there is this regulatory idea for sky roads. Fly in a straight predefined line/speed/height. bit like a ski lift.