> You’d expect there to be far more people at the street level than on top floors.
There are far more people who live near the sky than live near a large road.
> It’s more difficult to fuck things up in the air,
No, it really isn't? Aircraft driver licencing and training is notoriously much harder, longer than the equivalent motor-car licencing and training. Car drivers don't have to learn about stalls for starters. The training is there because a) it's much harder to do right, there are more ways to go wrong and b) potentially greater impact.
The common failure mode for a car is that it stops moving at the side of the road. The equivalent for an aircraft is that it falls out of the sky onto whatever is below. We are not ready for a lot more of that.
All of the things that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31719861 wrote, and:
> You’d expect there to be far more people at the street level than on top floors.
There are far more people who live near the sky than live near a large road.
> It’s more difficult to fuck things up in the air,
No, it really isn't? Aircraft driver licencing and training is notoriously much harder, longer than the equivalent motor-car licencing and training. Car drivers don't have to learn about stalls for starters. The training is there because a) it's much harder to do right, there are more ways to go wrong and b) potentially greater impact.
The common failure mode for a car is that it stops moving at the side of the road. The equivalent for an aircraft is that it falls out of the sky onto whatever is below. We are not ready for a lot more of that.
remember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Glasgow_helicopter_crash