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China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxis (www.cnbc.com)

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China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxis::Ehang shares have nearly doubled in price this year, before trading was temporarily halted Monday pending a significant announcement.

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[–] Chais 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's less air traffic now. But if you approve the first autonomous air taxi, you'll soon approve the second and third and before you know it there are thousands of those things whirring through every major city and then you have just as much traffic and one more dimension to worry about.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but that's a future problem. People don't care about those problems.

[–] Chais 6 points 10 months ago

Fair

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Still a relatively easily solvable problem. The problem with cars is using infrastructure designed for people. They need to read signs, detect things (humans in particular) in the way, and deal with other human drivers. If these communicate with each other (and don't clog signaling frequencies) they should be able to handle each other autonomously fairly well in the air.