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>>I want you to imagine most of the workers in a large office building all clocking out around 5:00 and each trying to take off in their own helicopter inside an hour
I want you to imagine a sky literally black with package delivery drones. Nature can do something like this and now we're starting to see ATC approaches that can handle this. One is put comm nodes throughout your city that the drones talk to and say where they are, what they are, and where they want to go. The comm nodes say things like you're good, watch out for drone 3 over here, go this way instead, or get the fuck out there's an emergency vehicle coming. We're not quite there yet. This requires infrastructure and worse yet standards for how the drones talk to each other and the comm nodes. Maybe even laws.