I was playing Mass Effect 2 which takes place a couple hundred years from now or so and flying cars are everywhere and much to my horror in relation to my last blog post, flying cars get shot at and nearly crash land!
I realized though that there is a way around the problem of policing the sky.
So, let's say there's a check stop in the sky where police are checking for drunk drivers, or pilots.
If someone freaks out and decides to b-line it any direction because it's the open sky we are talking about, the only way to prevent that is if there is a system in place that keeps the vehicle on the same 'path' and does not allow any deviation.
This would mean that the driver would actually have limited control, and rightly so, because we don't need maniacs doing donuts in the sky and flying cars falling out of the sky in random spots.
Imagine the infrastructure required for that kind of air way system.
In the movie Minority Report, vehicles are extremely slender and go up and down buildings and can be taken over by the police.
Perhaps that scenario is more realistic as a junction between cars on the road and cars in the air.
That's enough for this rant.
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