Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport.

• DrunkenPirate@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And if you ignore construction sites with high cranes and not documented buildings. Or overland high voltag power cables, wind mills, hobby drones, and local variations of birds.

  It‘s just taking the complex challenges of autonomous drivinf into the third dimension. Making it even more complex.

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• hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Other than the takeoff and landing, cars have to deal with those obstacles as well.

  A computer running a citywide automated traffic system for cars would have all the same complexity, without the ability to separate traffic in three dimensions.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So yeah, if you ignore the parts that make it more complicated it seems easier!

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