Journal of Alta California

Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads

Three years ago, in a darkened room in the heart of Silicon Valley, NASA engineers ran a simulation of a next-generation air traffic control system planned to manage a world where autonomous aircraft would routinely fly less than 400 feet above the ground.

This Jetsons-style world might consist of everything from package-delivery drones to flying cars or even autonomous

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