Currently drones crash an order of magnitude more often than manned aircraft, but by the time World War III is finished, they will have found and fixed almost all the ways in which a drone can crash and piloted airliners will be a thing of the past.
Next question - will we still be able to fly our light aircraft around in an unpredictable fashion, or will they be banned to make life easier for the drones.
You could argue that drones are already common in space. I think I'm right in saying that nobody ever hand flew a shuttle approach, or a Saturn V launch.
Last edited by abgd; 17th Mar 2013 at 22:19.