Ah! So that's an Airbus train!
As I said earlier, the costs and certification problems make
it a hypothetical argument. As long as there are no
commercial benifits I don't see it happening in the near future.
Has anyone thought of extra costs like making aerodromes
suitable for all the automatic landings which will occur then?
For example, Greece has only a couple of airports which can
do this. Not even talking about aerodromes around the world
where automatic landings are totally impossible
And don't forget, aviation (rightly or wrongly) has
a very strange mindset psychologically speaking:
if 15 people die in a train accident without a driver or
15 people die in an pilotless aviation accident, people
react much more strongly in the aviation one.You can
see that happening now already, 15 people die on the
roads in the weekend: look it up on page 13.
15 people die in the air somewhere around the world:
see page 1.
A train and an aeroplane are very,very different machines.
Not only in operation but also in people's minds.