Potential Policy Issues with Flying Car Technology

Abstract

Flying-car concept is a desirable concept to ease traffic congestion that exists in various parts of the globe. While flying cars has various advantages including reduced cost of building and maintaining traditional roadways, reduced reliance on road infrastructures, increased reliability of travel times, and reduced congestion, potential challenges with this technology can make it undesirable, if adequate planning, and technological implementations to ensure safety of people both on land and in the air, is not ensured. This report evaluates some potential advantages and challenges with flying-car technology, and proposed ways to address these challenges. Before flying-car technology is approved on a large scale, among other things, this report discussed the need to ensure appropriate tracking systems for flying cars, the need to ensure adequate law enforcement systems to control misuse of the technology, the need for technological innovations to minimize the impact of any mechanical faults or accidents on both the occupants of the flying-car, and people on the ground, and the need to ensure mandatory collision avoidance technology systems for flying cars. It is hoped that this report will generate more interest in researching ways by which this technology can be harnessed in a beneficial way for humanity.