We’ve already seen that companies with loud aircraft, low flight profiles, or a propensity to outsource civic engagement simply don’t achieve their goals and a few are no longer flying for that reason. Of course, no location is the same, no population exactly alike, and so a community driven service must be the way forward. Social Media is rife with thrilled customers receiving everything from birthday cakes and cups of coffee, to over-the-counter medication in a highly sustainable, highly personalized experience that negates the need to drive to a store. In places where the major drone companies have been flying for months or years, the results have been very positive. (Illustration by GraphicaArtis/Getty Images) Getty Images Public AcceptanceĪn even greater challenge may not be in the technology itself, but in the way society sees the use of the sky and we won’t know the answer until we have more flights, helping more people, experience life better. flies in the air, and functions as a boat, 1952. Retro illustration of a couple being driven in a futuristic electric car that drives on the road. This is one tough nut to crack, but will be crucially important in realizing a safe and secure future aviation system. It requires real-time decision making, and real-time dispersed propagation throughout the system.

This requires an all of industry approach to generate industry standards for communication, behavior, and implementation and requires the government to maintain a highly robust, secure, and effective data backbone to plug into. We’re used to air traffic management (ATM) keeping the skies safe, and so will Uncrewed Traffic Management (UTM) seek to deconflict the sky once multiple companies try to fly in the same environment. Playing the role that air traffic management plays today and empowering the regulator to ensure safety in the sky is very much the opposite approach that automobiles contend with, where each actor deciding in their best interest, leads to far more throughput but far less safety. Beyond physical infrastructure, an aspect unique to aviation is centralized traffic deconfliction.

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