Comment on Are flying cars finally here?
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 months agoObstacle identification and avoidance, and route planning in a dynamic environment are some of the biggest challenges with autonomous ground cars. In the sky, you don’t have bicyclists and delivery truck drivers stopped in the lane, and stuff like that. Even DJI drones can fly around trees and buildings. Again though, it’s not that there’s no risk, but the problems aren’t nearly as difficult to solve.
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Aren’t other flying cars going to be the dynamic part of the environment? Is what I’m asking
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sure, but we can expect that they will be communicating with each other in a RemoteID kind of way, but with additional information like up to date location and intended motion vector. Also, air traffic is already divided up into different heights for different directions.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sure, with 10 competing standards from 10 different companies that don’t communicate with each other.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
FAA has authority over every outdoor flying vehicle above ground level. I doubt there will be competing standards. RemoteID has been an awful rollout with a lot of miscommunication, but afaik there was never problems with incompatibility. (I’d actually love to see the standard spec) Airplanes already send out their location, been doing it for years. You can use an SDR to listen in on existing airplane beacons and map them on your computer.
web.archive.org/…/track-airplanes-with-rtl-sdr-an…
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Yeah true, I guess if you can enforce that as a standard there’s already tons of research on swarming behaviour with drones to work with.
Five@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
It’s a good thing that birds aren’t real, and already have RemoteID built-in.