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Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It isn’t that complex. The problem with current autonomous driving is the car can only infer what other cars are doing and what is around it, especially if we are talking about an autonomous car with idiotic vision mapping without lidar.

With a flying car that is directed by an AI that knows where every other flying object is, what every flying object is going to do, and the locations of every stationary object based on maps and lidar on the vehicle, you can keep collisions far less likely. Taking the human control out of the picture improves the conditions substantially.

I wouldn’t trust a flying car at all, but I would trust an autonomous one with AI ATC far more than an autonomous car going through a construction zone on a highway in a major city during rush hour.

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spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You would have a point if the flying car didn’t have to take into account the wind, updrafts, downdrafts, wind sheer off buildings, and a ton of other flying related stuff that helicopter pilots need to take into account which are barely noticeable to cars the majority of the time.

Then there is landing, the most dangerous part of flying. Imagine if the emergency braking in a csr needed to stop the car without spilling a liquid from an open cup.

Being on the ground is far less complex than flying, otherwise getting a pilot’s license would be easier than a driver’s permit.

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taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The problem with current autonomous driving is the car can only infer what other cars are doing and what is around it

With a flying car that is directed by an AI that knows where every other flying object is, what every flying object is going to do

Spoken like someone from a culture where drivers are the only thing around because they have gotten so used to ignoring pedestrians, bicyclists, animals (wild or otherwise),… that might be found on the road and hasn’t considered what else might be in the air at all.

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