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Pilots Watch for the Traffic That Doesn't Move. A Locust's Neuron Is Built to Ignore Everything Else.
The aircraft most likely to hit you is the one that sits still in your windscreen and only grows. A single locust neuron is tuned to spot exactly that, and to ignore the rest — which is the part machines still get wrong.
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Civil Engineers Taught Cameras to Read Cracks. Small Aircraft Operators Are Still Priced Out of Looking.
Fatigue is the failure mode that tore the roof off a 737 in flight. Civil engineers spent a decade teaching cheap cameras to find cracks in bridges and pavement; small aircraft operators still can't reach that tool.
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Starlings Already Solved the Air-Taxi Traffic Jam
Dense low-altitude traffic is the bottleneck holding back drones and air taxis. The coordination problem behind it is already solved — by starlings, fish, ants, pigeons, and a single neuron in a locust's brain.