On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:15:45PM +0200, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > i guess you haven't hung out much with air traffic controllers :-)
Traffic controllers and air corridors don't scale. > as i spend so much time in the air, i take a keen interest in this topic. > it may be possible for flying cars to automatically avoid each other, but > until then, travelling in 3 dimensions just means the chance of collision > is cubed, to 3 dimensions rather than just 1. The only way to make personal VTOL aircraft a reality is to remove the monkey from the joystick as far as you can throw him. Realtime collision avoidance is absolutely necessary, and a lot easier to do than robust car navigation (assuming, landing is in an uncluttered space). Another major reason against personal VTOL is fuel requirements. My current car takes 6.3 l/100 km typically, even ultralite VTOL would take at least an order of magnitude more. > At 10:55 28/06/2006, Ashish Gulhati wrote: > >Flight is 3D, so much less chance that your flying car will be in the > >same spot as another flying car at the same time). > -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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