You're thinking too narrowly.
- Solve traffic
- Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF
- Buy a mansion in Modesto, commute to Palo Alto
- The views!
These will be VTOL, electric, autonomous air taxis, not road-drivable cars.
- Solve traffic
- Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF
- Buy a mansion in Modesto, commute to Palo Alto
- The views!
These will be VTOL, electric, autonomous air taxis, not road-drivable cars.
Obviously, these will be blocked by swarms of flying cars.
It could work in that scenario... My biggest thought for drones, is it won't work from the distribution centers, simply because they are too far out from a lot of the drop off locations.. but combined with trucks, you could have the trucks drive less in-out, and drones for drop off. Would need a handler in addition to a driver though, depending on automation capability.
This would also need to be supplemented with uber-like service for deliveries that don't fit well for drone drops.
Or we could be more ecologically and energy conscious...