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Oh no...
I'm honestly pretty worried about people flying around the place on their own. It makes it so much easier to mess up, I believe, and way more dangerous than what cars currently are.
Hope they are reeeeally careful with how, or if they actually roll these out, because it could be such a nightmare...
And as always, fuck cars, and long live pedestrianization and public transit. It is technologicalny impressive, though, and the autopilot could be a lot better. But still...gives me the ick
A few crashes is all it will take for these to immediately be heavily regulated, assuming they won't already be heavily regulated right out of the gate.
Most of these are probably going to have to be autonomous. It's the only way to make this safe. They might introduce a special license allowing you to fly them manually after you take a course, but this will probably only be allowed in very sparsely inhabited areas and may be more of a tourist gimmick than anything else.
For practical everyday use you will have to have these run on automated systems that keep track of where others are at any given time and can fly along designated virtual lanes. I am not expecting these to be individually owned, at least not at first, but rather have taxi services owning an entire fleet of them and you just call them via an app.
The main problem right now is not the technology it's how you regulate them to make them safe, and i trust that China has a good handle on that, and if i had to guess i'd say they'll probably finish implementing the regulatory legal structure for this to become commercially viable in a couple of years, with possible setbacks if there is any kind of serious accident in the meantime.