Originally Posted by
ScepticalOptomist
I love nut jobs like this - keeps me smiling. Better than the wacko god botherers any day!!
OK, it won’t happen tomorrow but for sure it’s coming. There’s UAVs traversing the skies of the Middle East continuously. I’ve seen one at FL500 (as reported by ATC) about 15 years ago overhead Bahrain. One can only imagine how much further they’ve advanced since then.
The Tesla autopilot we all sneer at has to work in a far more unpredictable environment than any aircraft. Swathes of airspace can be closed off to preclude uncontrolled and unexpected traffic. Something you can’t do with roads. By way of example, the trains which get you around Changi Airport are unmanned, tens of thousands use this every day without a second thought.
And wasn’t that failed Uber wet dream of short haul intra city air taxis based on unmanned quadcopters? My point here is that the concept of unmanned transport can be sold to the travelling public. Something too many pilots refuse to accept.