Originally Posted by
Herod
Errr...on what do you base that? A pilot is thinking and acting (or at least monitoring) in 4 dimensions (the conventional 3 plus time). A car driver is only in 2. In fact, if you accept that a car is following a road, he is only in 1; straight ahead.
Your view is highly over simplistic. Next time you get in a car lock the steering straight ahead and accelerate to 70mph with your eyes shut, see how far you get . . .
Aircraft operate in a highly controlled environment (cars do not), the control system required to fly a plane does not require complex decision making logic which requires non deterministic deep learning to be used (cars do - there is no other approach (today) which allows a car to be driven on current roads), it's flight behaviour is mathematically deterministic (a car is not - the deep learning part is non deterministic and 'difficult' from a safety perspective). From a software and safety perspective, aircraft are much simpler to fly than driving a car (assuming the car is being driven in any kind of realistic scenareo).
It is a very commonly held view (in the safety, systems and software communities) that full automation of aircraft and trains is far more practical than that of cars.
Airbus, unsusprisingly, concur.