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I think it’s telling that ALL the computer professionals I know (me included) try to minimize the amount of computer technology controlling our cars. We’re OK with computers WE control, but not computers that control us. WHY???... Because there has NEVER been a failsafe Computer, or BUG FREE software. Something’s gonna go wrong eventually. You just don’t know where or when. You SURE don’t want it to go wrong at 30,000 feet![emoji1]


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All of the new airliners are all digital & fly by wire. Pilot input is fed into computers and the computers controls all the flight surfaces, engines & etc. I believe almost all can flight themselves. I remember 20+ years ago some had the capability to land themselves with no stick input. I've been out of the business over 20 years so I don't really get updated anymore. As for the small autonomous aircraft I don't think there's a snowballs chance in hell that the FAA will allow them in or near any of the major airport or airspace. Note that Air Force drones have be autonomously flying for years so it's nothing new. Many of the control by wire stuff is finding it way into cars. I know my 2003 TL had that type system for the accelerator. All & all once the software is correct the machine will do whatever its programmed to do. Hence thats why we can send probes to other planets & comets. Where I see the issue is, is placing them in a chaotic environment & expecting successful results. When I was looking at the Tesla at car required attention from the driver periodically. Some roads without lines and markings also required driver assistance. After a couple ran into a stopped truck & barricade that made me rethink some of my assumptions .
 
All of the new airliners are all digital & fly by wire. Pilot input is fed into computers and the computers controls all the flight surfaces, engines & etc. I believe almost all can flight themselves. I remember 20+ years ago some had the capability to land themselves with no stick input. I've been out of the business over 20 years so I don't really get updated anymore. As for the small autonomous aircraft I don't think there's a snowballs chance in hell that the FAA will allow them in or near any of the major airport or airspace. Note that Air Force drones have be autonomously flying for years so it's nothing new. Many of the control by wire stuff is finding it way into cars. I know my 2003 TL had that type system for the accelerator. All & all once the software is correct the machine will do whatever its programmed to do. Hence thats why we can send probes to other planets & comets. Where I see the issue is, is placing them in a chaotic environment & expecting successful results. When I was looking at the Tesla at car required attention from the driver periodically. Some roads without lines and markings also required driver assistance. After a couple ran into a stopped truck & barricade that made me rethink some of my assumptions .

We’re talking about a plane with NO pilot. Sure... autopilot has been around for decades... auto takeoff and landing too. But there’s ALWAYS been a pilot in the cockpit for when things go wrong... And things DO go wrong... even more often than you hear about. Fly by wire drones are not the same... no human on board. They crash often too, but all that’s lost is a machine... An EXPENSIVE machine, but still just a machine.[emoji1]


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Absolutely I said that there will always be a pilot be in the cockpit. It's one of the first things that I said when making the analogy to the autonomous cars. The point that I was trying to make that almost everything in the new Airliners is all digital hence you're controlling computers who it in turn controls the aircraft. So there is no getting around putting your faith in a computers unless your in a small Cessna. Should that system and redundancies go down so does the airplane. Those all digital system allows for the additional controls which was not widely available years ago by integrating with all the other systems GPS, Weather, landing & collision avoidance systems. That being said most catastrophic accidents happen when a multitude of factors converge which could be operator, system, programming & big most scary one maintenance. The last reason is probably the biggest reason I am always I'm not as comfortable flying even though I have a degree in Aerospace. I did a big paper on the effects of fuel costs on the airline industry in the 80s. And fuel was cheap compared to now. Usually a area where they like to save on is in maintenance.
 
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Absolutely I said that there will always be a pilot be in the cockpit. It's one of the first things that I said when making the analogy to the autonomous cars. The point that I was trying to make that almost everything in the new Airliners is all digital hence you're controlling computers who it in turn controls the aircraft. So there is no getting around putting your faith in a computers unless your in a small Cessna. Should that system and redundancies go down so does the airplane. Those all digital system allows for the additional controls which was not widely available years ago by integrating with all the other systems GPS, Weather, landing & collision avoidance systems. That being said most catastrophic accidents happen when a multitude of factors converge which could be operator, system, programming & big most scary one maintenance. The last reason is probably the biggest reason I am always I'm not as comfortable flying even though I have a degree in Aerospace. I did a big paper on the effects of fuel costs on the airline industry in the 80s. And fuel was cheap compared to now. Usually a area where they like to save on is in maintenance.


There are very few obstacles in the sky compared to on the ground. Not to many kids on skate boards are gonna dart out if front of you unless you happen to run across Marty Mcfly from Back To The Future. There not merging into traffic, stopping or waiting on traffic so they can pull out and go. The only thing in the sky to worry about are other airplanes, birds or bad weather. We as humans have the ability to foresee something about to happen. If a computer flying a plane sees an obstacle, it knows to avoid it, but the amount of obstacles you have to deal with while driving is far to complex.
 
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Absolutely that was my point earlier flying could be done autononmously because everything is organized/tracked and under Air traffic control for most part. And yet it isn't there are two pilots in the cockpit. But some feel they want to put a autonomous car in the public with all the interactions required. Like I asked before how do you give hand signs to a driverless car? Now create Highways where all vehicles are under computer control and controlled monitored both locally/centrally, that would work but a few will give up control or be to keen on being tracked.
 
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