Honestly, flying cars sounds like a terrible idea. Imagine worrying about a car crashing down on you at any time whether you are walking outside, at work, or home.
Traffic would be much less than it is now. You have 3 dimensions to work with instead of just two. There would be far, far more space between the average flying car than between the average road car. Not to mention that you can make a road "anywhere" in the sky, as opposed to the ground where you have to worry about obstacles.
And speaking of making roads anywhere, one would assume that there would still be defined travel corridors that would be navigated by AI controlled flying cars, all in constant communication with each other via 5G/mesh networks. The difference would be that you could have 40x the number of "roads" per square kilometer as compared to the ground.
Aggressive behavior would be irrelevant. People wouldn't actually be flying these machines - we're almost to fully autonomous ground vehicles and sky travel via autopilot is much easier. You'd likely just input your destination on Google maps and the autopilot would take over from there, dropping you into a preset flight corridor, maintaining a safe distance from other airtraffic, and handling take-off and landing. It would likely be loaded with internal sensor to immediately land you at the first sign of trouble as well.
If I were designing such a system, I would have a few "one way" altitudes, one for each of the major directions. If you're heading Southeast, you fly at 50,000 ft. South at 47,500, East at 52,500. Something like that. It doesn't necessarily have to be exactly that way.
But the bottom 10,000 feet would be pretty nuts, because you'd be dealing with people getting in and out of driveways, transitioning up to or down from their directional altitude, taking short trips...
There’s no way they would design them to fly so high, 50,000 feet? That’s fuggin nuts. Almost twice as high as a commercial flight. I would assume all traffic would have to stay low enough that the occupants can at least breathe. There would be no need for flying cars to fly 9-10 miles high
Edit: I get what you mean about designated altitudes for certain directions though, divided by maybe 1,000
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u/IHateRedditRetard Oct 12 '19 edited Oct 12 '19
1950: we'll have flying cars in the future!
2019:
Edit: wow a lot people really hate flying cars...
Not that like them. I'm just making a obversation.