Does Archer test its devices in cold weather? When I see the large autonomous vehicles, like the Teslas, being tested, I wonder how it’s going to fit into my life because not everybody lives in Southern California.
I don't know how far along they are, but I do think the devices are real. They're probably starting here in California where they can get it done. Of course, AI works great against the right trained dataset but when you present it with something that doesn't fit that dataset, the results can be disastrous or perhaps fatal. These are the things we'll have to go through to make these technologies commonplace, not in special segmented use cases, but to the point that everybody's using it.
Traffic in Toronto is the most congested in North America, so I would rather jump in one of those drone planes to get downtown in 15 minutes than spend two and a half hours sitting in traffic to go the same distance. It's a huge time savings but I still wonder: How sustainable are they? Are they emission-free?
The other point that made me think about this more is that I used to live in an area that is largely blue collar, so flying cars aren't going to be the same issue there. The one problem that I saw with flying cars in that setting was the overhead power lines on our two arterial roads. It restricts your ability to drive out of the garage and take off when you have to deal with 18th century technology like overhead power lines, which will break your car if you fly into them.
I do think that it will be some time until we have flying of drones for personal transportation as the skies are very highly regulated. Something will need to be created to regulate drone traffic. I can see that we may be able to use drones for driving closer to the road level sooner rather than much higher.
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We have to separate fiction from reality because right now, I don't see how a flying car can take people from one point to another, even though there might be a solution at hand.
For short distances or commute needs, I think it could work. We have to wait and see if there will be maturity. There are always regulations and many other things that will play into it.
It will happen, 10 years ago no one thinks driverless cars and trucks were possible.