Originally Posted by
jafar
https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/pres...d-takeoff.html
There we go, soon we'll see a "take-off" button on our MCP.
I hear a lot "passenger will not board a pilotless aircraft".
The question is...would you ? Is it preferable to a "normal" aircraft with two exhausted pilots pushed to the limit of their applicable FTL?
Food for thoughts
It's just a matter of time. Machine has many strengths over human. It can process multiple inputs simultaneously. it doesn't zone in one one item and forget on the others. It has no emotion, no panic, no fear. It's never tired. It can't get drunk. It does not forget. It does not miss details like "ohh, we have 27kt tailwind and the rwy is wet".
What's probably most important: it learns from experience from
other machines. It doesn't have the "can't happen to me" bias. It would just collect the data, use it in the statistics and learn from it.
In fact, what airlines should be doing is recording everything they can about their flights and sell that data back to manufacturers. Every sensor measure, every pilot input, every outcome. Machine can learn from that and fly the airplane, even with today's tech.
Self driving plane is way easier than self driving car. Way less circumstances. Way more structured and organised.
The kids of today will not fear automation. It's generational thing.