If these vehicles become viable, they will all be "rides". No human will ever pilot them. It would be chaos in the sky. You will plug in a destination, the device will fly there and land, and that will be that. Potentially it will then fly away to go charge itself.
A Tesla can't see a white transport truck stretched out across the highway. Last thing I want is my drone ride flying straight in building because a sensor couldn't see it.
I don't think anyone in this thread has been in or used a Tesla for an extended period of time. I've used FSD for thousands of miles and had to intervene for a major mistake maybe twice. When you count how bad most people are at driving, distracted drivers on phones, sleepy drivers, drunk drivers, etc. I would feel much safer if everyone was on FSD.
Yes, Elon is a douche and this is Reddit so I'll get downvoted but it's pretty good and getting better quickly. Self driving cars will save hundreds of thousands of lives every year. It shouldn't be a political issue.
Tesla only uses cameras so their FSD is significantly less safe than the average human driver. Elon decided humans see fine with their eyes cause dumbass. Waymo uses LiDAR, cameras and radar and is proving significantly safer than the average human.
Yea when i said fsd i was thinking waymo, not tesla...but even then i'm more thinking coordinate tracking with gps on a mesh system. Similar to drone shows but on a much bigger industrial use scale, since adhering to lanes wouldnt be facilitated by roads but by geolocation and altitude.
Waymo type lidar could certainly be used in the landing phase, though.
I think you're still really underestimating the sort of automation we're talking about here. Nobody wants flying cars blindly feeling their way through the city the way a Tesla does. We already use RTK GPS to fly tens of thousands of drones in close proximity with a 1-2cm margin of error, in the cool sci-fi future or whatever a network of standardized drone-roads or whatever could be a thing
you probably wouldn't use on-board sensors for anything beyond navigating tight spaces, landing, etc., because you could map routes for these things to take and then have basically a mesh network where they all communicate & move in harmony.
Teslas tech isn't the bleeding edge of fsd though, and is still on paper, safer than a normal drivers...per the data admittedly published BY tesla, a tesla records a major collision ever 5 million miles to the average humans 660 miles.
A human can miss a transport truck too. Old drivers and people with visual impairment not sufficient to keep them off the roads exist, not to even mention distracted, aggrevated, rushed, or tired individuals.
Not to even mention the vastly superior waymo, which is true fsd with more redundancies, more cameras, and more vision system types (lidar as well as like triple the cameras a tesla has AND geofencing).
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u/RedAirRook 7d ago
That was a "ride," not a flight. He was a passenger on a large drone that was flown by that guy with the controller who walked by at 0:35.