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Originally Posted by ekbell
It also requires air traffic control mechanisms that don't currently exist. Traffic in cities is bad enough as is, imagine the problems when mid-air collisions are a possibility!
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Actually, that tech exists and is 20 years old.
It hasn't been deployed but NASA designed a highway in the sky system in the mid-90s for general aviation that scales for flying cars and drones.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley...l96/96_71.html
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley...s/Olympic.html
In flying cars and personal planes it presents a heads up display that is literally a highway in the sky.
http://fiskalan888.blogspot.com/2012_08_01_archive.html
Refinement for drones is under way.
https://yournewswire.com/nasa-google...ontrol-system/