Startup claims world's first flying motorcycle, could go on sale next year for $60,000
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Would they be any more mentally unstable than the rest of us?
Do you also prefer self driving cars on the roads?
I could swear this is why these all will get a chip and unified software that will fly these vehicles where they need to go without giving "pilots" freedom to roam free. I cannot be the only person who is almost certain this is how it will be if these small drone like flyers become popular!
Fine with self driving cars, they are active in my neighborhood daily. What I don't want is people flying over and crashing into my home or business either intentionally or due to mechanical or software fault.
I can only speak for the UK but aircraft aren't allowed to fly over built up areas unless they have more than one engine (to cope with engine failure). It's slightly different for helicopters but, here in London, they must fly above the river unless landing or taking off from somewhere. I suspect it's different again for military aircraft.
Just curious but do you worry much about planes crashing into your house? Meteorites? Space debris?
Well that is not the case in the rest of the world, most places single engine privately owned aircraft can enter controlled airspace over a built up area, in my area its VFR and below 10,000ft. So if flying motorcycles take off that means there will be significantly more opportunity for issues as there are already multiple commercial and private airports in the area..
That would be st*pid wouldn't it, so I would hope that question was rhetorical.
For the average person, I'd say the chances of having a plane fall on their house wouldn't be much different to being hit by a meteorite or space debris. If you're surrounded by airfields then obviously it's a more valid concern. I actually live within 20 miles of 2 of the busiest airports in the world but I can't say crashing planes have been much of a worry but obviously YMMV.
Though, thinking about it, my house was once destroyed by a German V2 in WWII but that wasn't an accident.
I live 2 miles away from a site where a Cessna pilot was sight seeing with his family and wasn't paying attention and collided with passenger jet 160+ passengers/crew both planes went down and took out 3 blocks of a neighborhood killing 5 people on the ground (would have been more but it was the weekend).
I work a mile from another private airport, several years ago I witnessed a plane go down and actually crash into a burn a home to the ground pilot died and no fatalities (people were at work). And just last year at the same airport a plane had issues while landing and crashed through the gate at the end of the runway across the road and into a neighboring business. I'm one person and I have seen multiple aircraft incidents by chance, putting more things in the air in a congested corridor wouldn't be good air traffic control is already taxed in this region.
I live near the 5 or 6th busiest in addition to that there are 5 other multi runway airports that take international and domestic flights, almost all local cities have at least 1 private airport.
No problem, the tech just needs to advance and mature as self driving tech is still maturing. Laws need to advance as well to define who is consider as qualified to operate these types of vehicles. And the tie in with air traffic control systems and other aviation infrastructure would need to advance as well.
I'm not saying it is a bad idea, I'm just saying a lot of work needs to be done if this is to be used safely and at scale.
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