• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    Flying taxis won’t happen, way too many risks, even in the future, never mind the horrors of having your skies full of that crap.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      We have auto-pilots for planes, those are mostly fine. People are the problem. I dont trust humans to operate motor vehicles in 2 dimensions, let alone 3…

      • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
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        2 hours ago

        To be fair, you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying in an automobile accident.

        Based on modern safety standards for everything else, that’s unacceptable.

        If I offered you a job and said you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying from working this job, you would refuse. The most dangerous job in the USA is logging, with about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying. More lumberjacks die driving home than die working their extremely dangerous job.

        Not only should we have self-driving flying taxis by now, but we should also at least have level 5 self-driving cars so people aren’t constantly dying driving to get groceries or pick up their kids.

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          7 hours ago

          Obviously I know how they work, I saw it in a documentary about Airplanes. The Otto pilot inflates at the press of a button (or is inflated manually) and they fly the plane.