Airline Pilots To Be Replaced Before Car Drivers

Aircraft piloting is easier to automate than car driving because the operational environment is much simpler Other aircraft can be spotted with radar. The aircraft never get as close as cars do. No pedestrians and kids on bicycles are bouncing around and popping out of clouds. Automatic pilot systems came to aircraft decades before autonomous vehicles hit the highways. Some say the end is in sight for pilots. I expect the biggest benefit for smaller communities since the cost of a pilot per passenger is a larger percentage of total cost for a 5 or 10 seater airplane than for a jumbo jet. Automated aircraft could lower the financial hurdle for setting up passenger aircraft to smaller and more rural...

Source: FuturePundit - August 7, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs