Increasingly and amid the deafening enthusiasm from the tech sector, commentators are beginning to question whether genuinely driverless cars are a possibility anytime in the foreseeable future. There are still huge unsolved issues around safety, reliability, legality, insurability etc. The press is getting well ahead of itself because the stories make for good reading. My point being, we are probably a long way away from truly driverless cars never mind pilotless aircraft.
We should all be able to agree that eventually, in X many years, pilotless commercial aircraft will be a reality. That X is, in my opinion, a very large number at the moment.