Originally Posted by
neville_nobody
The reality is all that pilotless airliners will do is introduce new problems to aviation. Not to mention the numerous other systems that will have to be invented to help AI aircraft work.
If you have a read of the Tech Log Forum there is a thread that demonstrates how complex building AI aircraft is going to be.
You are using the wrong tense. AI aircraft are being built now.
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Arthur C. Clarke