**Dubai Autonomous Drone Taxi **
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I have always loved drones and the many uses for drones, but I have never thought or imagined that they will one day be used in the place of cars, for personal transport, or taxis!! Bye , Bye Uber, I can now drink and fly home, without smoking something, that is bought from under the counter!! LOL.
An autonomous drone has a number of advantages over an autonomous or driver-less car. Car's are restricted by roads and have to interact with other cars that could be autonomous or human driven. Humans can make mistakes that can be difficult for autonomous vehicles to predict or avoid, and all this happen in the confinements of a road. With low level flight these restrictions will not be there. The drones will fly at low altitude, thus will not affect or be affected by airplanes. They will not be restricted by road confines and they will not encounter human controlled drones. It will be easy to avoid accidents. A further advantage is that the drones will work in a 3D space against a 2D space for road going vehicles. This gives more options to avoid other traffic. Below is a video of a drone taxi.
These drones can carry one person with a bit of luggage. On a full charge it can fly for about 2 hours and reach a speed of about 100 km/h at an altitude of around 3500 m.
Some other advantages are that there currently is no congestion in the air. You can also fly directly to your destination, as you don't need to follow the road, you go as the crow flies!! Nice. You also have a birds eye view of your surroundings, which will be interesting. While flying you can also keep yourself busy, by reading replies on your steemit articles, or by reading some other steemit posts. This seems idyllic!! No concentration needed to steer your vehicle through traffic.
You can read more about these drones by following the links in blue. Most of my information comes from these two links.
Will you feel safe enough to fly in a autonomous drone like this?
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