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Originally Posted by Hans Tucker
Trouble is Councils are pushing to remove cars from the CBD's.
I see merit in Autonomous Vehicles for freeway driving.
Question. Would people feel comfortable with Fully Autonomous Aircraft, remove the pilot entirely?
I really don't know why we dont have fully Autonomous Trains.
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Hans, most of the most modern aircraft are already fully autonomous. Capable of taking off on auto pilot, navigating the route and around weather, and landing using the airport ILS systems. Mostly pilots just monitor the AI. There has been discussion of reducing airline cockpit crews to just a single pilot. On long haul flights over oceans airlines are still required to carry multiple crews, but many of these folks never touch the controls, it's a monitoring function, but staffing is determined by flight time regulations for crew rest periods. AI does not get tired.