Uh...you go first.
If the alternative is Affirmative Action quotas for pilots and air traffic controllers, I am voting with the robots, but only if the robots are registered Republicans.
So all those Predator drones don't count, eh?
As I understand it, there’s already a lot of autopilot functionality happening in the latest commercial aircraft, and I guess I’d trust a robot more than, say, a pilot with a drug habit. But I guess it’d be a while before I’d trust a situation with no human pilot on there at least an emergency backup.
Just because their “Driverless Cars” and spell check are disasters doesn’t mean their “pilotless Airplanes” shouldn’t be trusted.....
I live under a flight path of an international airport....so...not good.
I don’t want to see the headline, “400 people dead from 404 error.”
They’re gonna NEED pilot-free planes after all the human pilots die from the KarenVax....
What would it do with the question, “Do you know the way to San Jose?”
It’s not capable of real thought, so it would never feel a song coming on.
If it were told to nose dive into a field, well... not like it would actually care.
Would the world’s mega movers and shakers trust the system, even — or especially — if their “own people” were supervising?
It’d be something more like the Hillary meme for placing an order with the suicide hotline.
We've had RC planes (both model and full-size) for years.
It’s not “autonomous” if there’s a remote pilot supervising it.
Good thing I moved to Georgia
And the programming is only as good as the programmer. If the programming is done by some alien who walked across the Rio Grande instead of coming in through legal channels, we can expect to hear the pilotless planes yelling "Aloha Snackbar" as they crash into buidlings.
Other than that, no worries!
The point of a drone is to not risk a pilot’s life. Here, you would risk the lives of everyone aboard the aircraft and an unknown number on the ground should a failure occur.
The robotic “pilot” must have flawless and uninterrupted signals and the electronics must be without error. Good luck risking lives aboard and on the ground below with that misplaced faith.
Our military does this every day. I don’t understand why it’s such a big deal. That being said I don’t think it’s a good idea for the commercial world to get involved in flying drones.
What is going to happen when Bill Gates takes over the computer to update? He does it to me all the time with no notice that it’s going to happen or that it’s taking place.
Back in the 80s, a C5 Galaxy could do everything but take off by itself (for obvious reasons) - it could fly about anywhere and land itself (published/mapped airfields/runways) without pilot intervention though...
How are new pilots supposed to build flight time? Short cargo hops are great for newer pilots. I can’t see them going pilotless on passenger flights.
My dad did avionics for the military for 40 years.
He told me that he was surprised the FAA insisted on their antiquated thinking.
Interesting concept.