REST:
I am afraid that if they do an effort, they will overcome any obstacles, invent new systems, methods, redundancies, combined remote control and self contained systems...
Imagine an airplane that is transfered from one air traffic controller/remote pilot to another. In the event of loss of comm, TCAS will intervene. If WX ahead this can be done in a similar way.
All this research can be very expensive, let alone implementing it. But still the greedy bastards in the industry may calculate that they will have benefits in the long term, if they manage to put us out of the cockpits.
ADMIRAL346
HAHA, You mean the episode when the germans buy the nuclear plant and Homer stars dreaming of "chocolateland" in the middle of a "explain your job" interview?
hmmmm.... Chocolate!