[balaji1]

Hahaha so true. Flying things aren't more abundant and prevalent because there must be insane lobby machinery and regulatory capture around the aviation industry. Plus economics of course.

For example, Zipline[1] is innovating in a part of the world, which wouldn't be possible elsewhere.

[1] https://www.flyzipline.com/

[dotnet00]

The factor limiting prevalence of flying things is that the biggest cost tends to be energy, and flight is pretty energy intensive. So it only makes sense when the travel time is so much more valuable than the energy cost of the transportation.

Plus, autonomously taking off/landing a large plane at designated locations where all other activity is carefully controlled, is much easier than having them fly and land in unpredictable environments such as at people's doors.

[thatguy0900]

I mean theres probably not a worse case scenario for Ai vehicles than a plane crashing in a city. Car crashes are nothing in comparison. I don't think the regulation here is misplaced.

[JoeAltmaier]

Definitely then, go automatic. Better record than human pilots?

[JoeAltmaier]

Pilots' union I suppose.