Self-Driving Mini-Copters are the Future.. and here's why I think that..

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In this article/work of hopeful fiction  I say we have mini-copters..


Self-Driving Mini-Copters are the Future.. and here's why I think that..

With self-driving cars.. it's a noble pursuit.. however, cars only have 8 directions of travel on one plane of movement.. however a helicopter has 26 directions of travel across three planes of movement (the extra ones being up and down)..

The skies are pretty empty, and giving an AI an extra 18 options to avoid collision is smart.

I *imagine* we could have personal mini-copters.. these would be around half the size of a car and carry one or two passengers. Inside would be sparse, and designed to be totally self cleaning.. like those self cleaning toilets that spray themselves and then dry themselves.

I don't know whether or not people should own the mini-copters or they should be provided by the government. If you own it.. then you are responsible for it.. however if these are owned by the government it wouldn't matter which copter you were using and the first nearest available one would come to you.

Taxi
As an automated taxi service..this could be potentially a good business however, morally, if they just replace taxis.. which are ultra expensive to ride in.. then no, it's not moral. People should just use a taxi. If these vehicles were  forced to keep their prices 1/10th of national average taxi prices by law and governmental regulation acts.. then yes, I could see how that could both make money for an entrepreneur and benefit humanity.

AI.

Right now.. AI isn't great.. if you have ever played a game where the AI has to control a vehicle.. games like Far Cry and Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft) let you do this.. these are the *good* examples of AI.. and even they are not perfect. Every so often they will make a judgement call and it will be a bad one.. but as humans we could see it was bad.

Flying would be very different.. as we could go up and down.. I think AI could cope with that. In games it's really bad.. but if you could teach the AI about air traffic control.. much less so.

these are my thoughts and I am bit tired and need a smoke..

Live long and prosper!

Dava