"Road builders shouldn’t hang up their spades just yet though. There will be great regulatory hurdles for flying cars to overcome, as Bryant Walker Smith, an expert on autonomous vehicles, told The World Weekly. Although the agencies controlling airspace “can be impressively flexible and relatively speedy” in adapting to innovations, the lack of a human pilot in Airbus’s vehicles “presents far more technical and legal challenges”, he explained."
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