Limiting Jerks for Comfortable Commuting by Personal Drone

Drones can do some incredible acrobatics. If you were somehow a passenger on that drone and weren't a trained fighter pilot (and maybe even if you were), you'd pass out and very likely die. Drones don't do a lot of passenger carrying at the moment, which is probably for the best, but we've seen enough crazy ideas to suggest that using autonomous drones instead of autonomous cars to transport humans is probably going to be a reality within a handful of decades.* At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland, a group of researchers led by Dario Floreano is already worrying about how we're going to handle personal drone flights, especially in situations where a lot of drones are trying to go in a lot of different directions at the same time. They've come up with an algorithm that allows drones to avoid collisions with each other while also not turning humans into mounds of quivering goo.