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It will be interesting to see the implementation of three dimensional drone traffic.

Who is working on the drone path guidelines, and traffic control policies?

NASA and the FAA are collaborating with the industry leaders on this. It's under the umbrella of UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management).

Here's Wing's blog on it: https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-demonstrates-decentral...

Airbus has a strong team working on this. https://www.airbusutm.com/

I feel like automated flight could always avoid incident by detecting all objects (at the same elevation) within $x feet, and if the object is north of you, move up $y feet, and if it’s south, move down $y feet, unless another object is above/below you, in which case veer $z degrees clockwise and continue travel until you can change elevation?

For aircraft to aircraft there’s a automatic advisory which coordinates this between aircraft.

https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Airborne_Collision_Avoid...

I’ve heard some Airbus have it tied into their auto pilot too.

When all else fails, the rule is “turn right”.

Cool, yeah, seems pretty straight-forward?

I think we may never have fully self-driving cars because fully self-flying cars is so much easier, and better! It just needs to get quieter.

Uber and NASA are working on this.

Here’s the airspace management talk we gave at the last Uber Elevate Summit, which gets into some 3D topics.

https://youtu.be/ojkK5zI2VO8

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