[strooper]

It will be interesting to see the implementation of three dimensional drone traffic.

Who is working on the drone path guidelines, and traffic control policies?

[mcqueenjordan]

NASA and the FAA are collaborating with the industry leaders on this. It's under the umbrella of UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management).

Here's Wing's blog on it: https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-demonstrates-decentral...

[karthikb]

Airbus has a strong team working on this. https://www.airbusutm.com/

You can read more here: https://www.airbusutm.com/uam-resources-airbus-blueprint

[zhoujianfu]

I feel like automated flight could always avoid incident by detecting all objects (at the same elevation) within $x feet, and if the object is north of you, move up $y feet, and if it’s south, move down $y feet, unless another object is above/below you, in which case veer $z degrees clockwise and continue travel until you can change elevation?

[pininja]

For aircraft to aircraft there’s a automatic advisory which coordinates this between aircraft.

https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Airborne_Collision_Avoid...

I’ve heard some Airbus have it tied into their auto pilot too.

When all else fails, the rule is “turn right”.

[zhoujianfu]

Cool, yeah, seems pretty straight-forward?

I think we may never have fully self-driving cars because fully self-flying cars is so much easier, and better! It just needs to get quieter.

[malandrew]

Uber and NASA are working on this.

[pininja]

Here’s the airspace management talk we gave at the last Uber Elevate Summit, which gets into some 3D topics.

https://youtu.be/ojkK5zI2VO8