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While US politicians advocate building a wall on the border with Mexico, startups develop hoverbikes. In a few years all border walls might be obsolate because it's easy for everybody who wants to fly over them.
All sorts of other situations where walls or height is used to prevent certain area's to be inaccessible by human will also be affected.
There was an ancient thread about sort of "extremely politically incorrect ideas that were nonetheless true", and there I noticed that one of such idea was that walls were effective at segregating people.
It would be interesting to see if hoverbikes and the like will be purchased even by the poorest, thereby eliminating barriers against immigration and segregation.
It's not a practical workaround. A slowly-moving airborne target is very shootable.
It surely is, but then you have to step from passive to active surveillance. But who knows, maybe in the future we'll have automatic turrets shooting at flying immigrants.
The hoverbikes at the link cannot carry people (although it's likely enough that this will one day be possible.)
There are images on the website with a person on the drone and the drone being in the air. The problem for human usage is safety.
If you want one person to fly for limited distances, there are many alternatives.
US - Canada border is unguarded. If you avoid roads, you can just walk over it, no hoverbike necessary. And yet, it doesn't strike me as "obsolete".
I used to think that the US-Canada border doesn't have much effects in terms of goods or people flowing through it. Do you think the reality is different.
What do you mean by "much effects"? I can assure you border checkpoints exist :-)