Originally Posted by
16024
Autonomous jet airliners won't ever happen.
Repeat this over and over.
Cut it out and stick it on your wall. In a frame.
For the oldies among us it doesn't matter anyway. For anyone young enough to be thinking about a career break in China, for example, you will get to see the end of jet airliners.
And you can look at those words, in the frame and say "He was right."
if we're talking about the masters of automation (i.e. Airbus) lets look at the reality. In the near enough thirty years since the first A340 was rolled off the production line, aside from the obvious efficiencies driven by new technologies, what major automation advances do we have in the flight deck of the A350? Brake to Vacate and Automatic TCAS. And we're getting to pilotless aircraft within the same timeframe based on that rate of "progress"? Give me a break.