10-17-2025, 01:04 AM
Initially seeing these little craft makes me exited, but then I remember how people drive. We will never get personal air transport for the masses unless AI flies it.
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10-17-2025, 05:24 AM
(10-17-2025, 01:04 AM)Sirius Wrote: Initially seeing these little craft makes me exited, but then I remember how people drive. We will never get personal air transport for the masses unless AI flies it. I think you are calling it with AI predominantly doing the flying when air vehicles become the norm, at least in most airspace. Those little craft look like a hop, skip, and a jump, away from the ones in "Wipeout" through. I want one, those could be fun. LoL
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
10-17-2025, 06:02 AM
This post was last modified: 10-17-2025, 06:03 AM by UltraBudgie.
I think people are going to insist on some type of psedo-autonomy in driving control, and won't be happy with a pure passive driving/flying experience. Something instinctively scary about the loss of control, with no pilot? Perhaps a generation conditioned by robot-taxis will take care of that, but I dunno.... I think the system that would end up working would be something like that old Dragon's Lair arcade game, where you have a chance to make changes to the path at every significant intersection, but are on automated rails between them. Maybe if you move the control inputs between then, you can get a bit of sway from side-to-side, or something, to reassure that you're "still in control", but nothing that would change lanes or flight level or move you significantly in the traffic pattern. Of course there will be "emergency override" inputs, but that will probably just engage a direct-to-safe descent mode or something...
10-17-2025, 06:17 AM
(10-17-2025, 06:02 AM)UltraBudgie Wrote: I think people are going to insist on some type of psedo-autonomy in driving control, and won't be happy with a pure passive driving/flying experience. Something instinctively scary about the loss of control, with no pilot? Perhaps a generation conditioned by robot-taxis will take care of that, but I dunno.... I think the system that would end up working would be something like that old Dragon's Lair arcade game, where you have a chance to make changes to the path at every significant intersection, but are on automated rails between them. Maybe if you move the control inputs between then, you can get a bit of sway from side-to-side, or something, to reassure that you're "still in control", but nothing that would change lanes or flight level or move you significantly in the traffic pattern. Of course there will be "emergency override" inputs, but that will probably just engage a direct-to-safe descent mode or something... Like you suggest, manual control would have to be present in one form or another. If for no other reason than an emergency or system failure occurring. "Dragon's Lair" LoL I put quite a few quid into that particular arcade cabinet back in the 80s. 
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
Augmented design is a deep technical challenge. For things like air bags, the computer will always be in control. They also do good on engine management with experience.
If Faster than light travel does become a thing, having a computer in control of all the variables sounds like a good idea. As for where to decide to take such machines? Driver assist for any noobs is a good idea for these flying machines. Does take a while for strong consistent systems to develop. 
10-17-2025, 10:24 AM
This video explains it.
Almost $100,000 usd for 20 minutes of runtime with hours of charging. And all controlled by a multi redundant computer system that gives the ilision of manual controll. A range of just over 20 miles flight. It only allows supposedly safe flight. Can't go too fast. Can't get too close to anything. It is an expensive toy with several automatic limits to what it does. I know too much and question everything.
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