WanderingThoughts

Just because some things are intangible doesn't mean they're not real.

You own the kitchen, or the mice own it and you just have a timeshare.

Also the belief the future will be better and more abundant. People need that as possible parents being scared of the future are not having (more) children.

And the society we live in tells us money, expensive status symbols and varying experiences you can brag about are the most important things. Having many children stands in the way of that

Announced since 2014

AI trained on carmageddon

And make other countries see clean tech as the patriotic choice

Like many things they won't bother for occasional personal use, but will come down with the hammer if it turns into a business.

These articles also never mention how this is going to work in the fabric of a city.

Say optimistically a 15 second separation between vehicles, 4 passengers per vehicle, means one ¨sky-lane¨ can transport 60/15 * 60 * 4 => about 1000 people per lane. That´s worse than a car lane, and an order of magnitude behind bicycle lanes and subways. You can stack multiple lanes vertically, but then it becomes more fun with traffic control for take-off and landing and still a bicycle lane transports more people.

So far these things seem better as a city hopper, or used in a rural setting, but the current ones don´t have the range for that either.

Even in cyberpunk these flying cars are only for big corpos and the rich.

Getting caught

Let's see how fast China will be in becoming the cultural dominant one.