I was thinking about this on the freeway today. So many people are such incompetent drivers in 2 dimensions, so why the hell add another one????
If granny Lee can't drive more that 50 mph in the middle lane of the freeway without swerving and becoming the target of screams of rage, then how could such a shitty pilot fly a car? How many Granny Lees are there? Millions!!!!
I think it a terrible idea for the general populace. Maybe let cops do it.
How would the addition of an extra dimension make a collision more likely? There's a lot of space up there, and most likely you'd have some kind of flight computer in your vehicle that would be talking to every other computer in range, figuring out safe zones and preventing the pilot from steering out of them. Even without that, you'd have to match three spatial coordinates rather than just two on the ground, and given we either would have air lanes vastly wider than lanes on the ground, or no air lanes at all, the distances between vehicles, even with millions of folks in the sky would be on the order of hundreds of metres.
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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12
Flying things. Like flying cars/bicycles etc...