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  • detritus0

    I doubt they'll take that form, for the exact reasons you state, re: airfields and roads, pure fucking danger.

    The thing is, the AI to control a flying vehicle is likely a lot simpler than the levels of AI already deployed in the likes of a Tesla - purely because there's a greater range of predictability than on the ground. That implies that some sort of airborne commuting vehicle, if physically/electrically possible, almost becomes probable.

    It's that curve that Volocopter in Germany's charting, and they've even recently secured a fairly large amount of investment from Daimler..

    https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/…

    I doubt we'll ever see flying cars as imagined in the 60s or so — jets with idiot humans on the stick.

    • Hovering mobile vehicles, yes.. I can see that happening. But stuff that depends on thrust for flight... not a chance hahah.Muncher
    • although... my wife watched some program last night about astronaut training, and I watched parts of it. The first...Muncher
    • test was whether they could hold a gyrocopter stable for 15 seconds. They were RAF pilots and other very clever people, and none of them could do it!Muncher
    • This show. Worth a watch if you didn't see it Det.
      https://www.youtube.…
      Muncher
    • < Its pretty cool that this thing doesn't require a tail rotor. It must be a heck of a lot more stable than the 'big spinning blades' school of helicoptorology.Muncher
    • Yeah, anything that happens along this road will involve an app that states pick way points and that's it. No human control at all. Perhaps the AC. Perhaps.detritus
    • Chinooks don't require a tail rotor either - they're solely required when you've just the one set of big spinning choppy bastards.detritus
    • ...he states, obviously.detritus
    • Oh yes, I see what you mean. State your destination tech + impact avoidance tech, and that's it. That would work... as much as anything ever actually works.Muncher
    • all about the batteriesformed

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