Personal air vehicle: Is this possible?

Summary:

According to Missy Cummings, professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the future where we will have an air vehicle isn’t far away. The idea of the air vehicle would be the intersection of a drone with a robotic car, so that your plane was also your car. The main propriety of a drone is that uses a fly-by-wire system which drives alone for a pre-set route. Drones have a negative bias in the media, says Cummings, because they are essentially seen as spy cameras, however they don’t know that the drones technology is used in conventional planes. To build these vehicles it should be necessary to use this drone technology to avoid the tragic accidents which can cause our slow human reaction system.

There really aren’t any technological hurdles to this idea, says Cummings, however there are psychological and cultural hurdles that slow the process. We tend to distrust from the drones controlled by computers, we tend to want to be in our comfort zone that in this field are the conventional vehicles, and finally it will be very expensive to build a drone because we haven’t got the robots to make a big manufacturing process.

Opinion:

In my opinion some day we will use any type of flying vehicle like a type of plane or what’s called like a “jetpack”… but the question is: If we have the technology to do it, why we haven’t done it yet? It could be interesting to see some prototypes and others but if anyone is demanding desperately for them probably we don’t need them. I think that probably in a long time this technology will be able to give us a better life quality but the problem is that we are now in our comfort zone, where we are secure, always is the same and this technology would suppose a radical change in our society, a radical change which we are not prepared to.

Words learnt:

Hurdles

Bias

Drone

Fly-by-wire

         http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131031-a-flying-car-for-everyone