That’s true. Just like with any vehicle, good drivers watch where they’re going, including up and down. Brooms should observe some basic etiquette, something like this:
Ascending/descending traffic yields to level-flying traffic
Faster traffic yields to slower traffic
Brooms yield to all aircraft larger than them
Yes, those rules contradict each other sometimes and cause everyone to slow down, but it’s enough to avoid most collisions.
The problem comes when we start expanding our cities vertically with flight in mind. The skies start filling up with flyers going every witch way and it gets chaotic like some kind of 3D Shibuya Scramble Crossing. We’re gonna need more traffic controls in cities, like speed limits.
Scooters like this one are ideal for city flying. The way you ride it is very natural, but not aerodynamic. Look at where that broom’s brush head is. That thing is not going over 20 mph without doing backflips. No way anyone’s getting that up to flyway speeds without stabilizers, wind magic, or other shenanigans.
Maybe witches develop birdlike reflexes and sync up with each other like a murmuration of starlings. How starlings don’t crash into each other, I don’t understand.
I asked a friend who studies birds how the starlings don’t crash into each other, and she said they’re very good at knowing where all their immediate fellows are (the surrounding birds are compared to them), and so the entire group knows where to go by going where their fellows are going. I think! The science isn’t concluded on it though, she adds.
If we had some natural ability to fly, I think we’d have developed the ability to sense people coming from above or below.
If it’s a technological solution, so soooo many crashes
That’s true. Just like with any vehicle, good drivers watch where they’re going, including up and down. Brooms should observe some basic etiquette, something like this:
Yes, those rules contradict each other sometimes and cause everyone to slow down, but it’s enough to avoid most collisions.
The problem comes when we start expanding our cities vertically with flight in mind. The skies start filling up with flyers going every witch way and it gets chaotic like some kind of 3D Shibuya Scramble Crossing. We’re gonna need more traffic controls in cities, like speed limits.
Scooters like this one are ideal for city flying. The way you ride it is very natural, but not aerodynamic. Look at where that broom’s brush head is. That thing is not going over 20 mph without doing backflips. No way anyone’s getting that up to flyway speeds without stabilizers, wind magic, or other shenanigans.
Maybe witches develop birdlike reflexes and sync up with each other like a murmuration of starlings. How starlings don’t crash into each other, I don’t understand.
I asked a friend who studies birds how the starlings don’t crash into each other, and she said they’re very good at knowing where all their immediate fellows are (the surrounding birds are compared to them), and so the entire group knows where to go by going where their fellows are going. I think! The science isn’t concluded on it though, she adds.