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China just approved flying taxis – no pilot needed

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78 points JumpCrisscross | 1 comments | 12 Apr 25 18:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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not_your_vase ◴[12 Apr 25 18:30 UTC] No.43666830[source]▶
I definitely don't want to belittle the achievement, but I would imagine that creating safe self-driving helicopters is much easier than creating safe self-driving cars. (At least as long as the skies are just as empty as they are today. Once it's full of things like the roads, that will be a different topic)
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pryelluw ◴[12 Apr 25 18:44 UTC] No.43666943[source]▶
Can you expand on how you reason it would be easier?
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1. voidspark ◴[12 Apr 25 18:56 UTC] No.43667022[source]▶
Open space. Fewer obstacles up there in the sky, separated by large distances. Simple trajectories. We've already had autopilot systems for decades.