Originally Posted by
alphacentauri
What's wrong with no (0) pilots? We are already crashing aeroplanes semi regularly with 2-3 pilots on board, so long as the accident rate (level of safety) remains constant what difference does it make?
Unless you are advocating for a zero accident rate, which is an impossible dream for crewed operations,.....why are we setting the safety bar higher for uncrewed ops? (or less crewed ops)
Alpha
Very wrong reasoning to think only about accidents that were created by pilots while omitting all the accidents that didn't happen thanks to pilots.
The latter are far more frequent.
Automation bugs happen really frequently.