Well, think about it. People get into car crashes all the time, and that's with roads and traffic lanes and relatively few judgments to make. Stop, go, changing speeds, changing lanes. Not to mention, if they have to pull over for some reason, they're safely on the ground.
Add another dimension, and all of a sudden they have more decisions to make, and the entire sky to monitor for other vehicles, instead of just the road. And if something goes wrong, they're falling out of the sky.
You could set up aerial traffic lanes and mimic the rules of the road, but someone's always trying to drive in the breakdown lane. They'd do it in flying cars, too, unless you gave the traffic AIs complete control over the vehicles.
Then only allow intelligent and law-abiding people access to them. Honestly, things like that would be a lot easier if you had to pass some sort of test.
They tend to if they see a police car. Other than that, people break traffic laws regularly, even people who wouldn't dream of breaking other laws. It's usually the minor ones like the speed limit, but some people are very aggressive drivers.
We do have flying vehicles in my world. There's a stricter licensing system than for ground vehicles, and more rigid traffic rules.
Most people aren't either "responsible" or "irresponsible." They're somewhere in between.
The government has to choose which is better for society, allowing more people to drive and potentially having more accidents, or issuing fewer licenses to potentially reduce crashes, while limiting more people's mobility.
Different countries make different decisions. Our licensing is stricter than the American Empire's, for example, because we're geographically smaller and have better public transit. Not being able to drive is much less of a hardship in Japan than it is in most parts of North America.
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Add another dimension, and all of a sudden they have more decisions to make, and the entire sky to monitor for other vehicles, instead of just the road. And if something goes wrong, they're falling out of the sky.
You could set up aerial traffic lanes and mimic the rules of the road, but someone's always trying to drive in the breakdown lane. They'd do it in flying cars, too, unless you gave the traffic AIs complete control over the vehicles.
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We do have flying vehicles in my world. There's a stricter licensing system than for ground vehicles, and more rigid traffic rules.
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The government has to choose which is better for society, allowing more people to drive and potentially having more accidents, or issuing fewer licenses to potentially reduce crashes, while limiting more people's mobility.
Different countries make different decisions. Our licensing is stricter than the American Empire's, for example, because we're geographically smaller and have better public transit. Not being able to drive is much less of a hardship in Japan than it is in most parts of North America.
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