I've read De Crespigny's book. You may want to re-read it yourself. The Flysmart software did exactly as asked by the pilots and gave figures that wouldn't work as it had defaulted to wet runway. When the humans finally realised their error and changed it to dry runway they achieved the performance to land. Or in simpler terms crap in; crap out.
As for your children retiring before "before a remotely controlled airliner is in service."... Well have a read of this link and I'll grant you that it was a non-revenue, tech demonstrator, but it kind of happened already.
Pilotless flight trialled in UK shared airspace - BBC News
And for 6000pic, thank you for the personal attack and disparaging remarks that provide nothing to the discussion. I'd address whatever position you held in this civilised, hypothetical discussion but you don't have a clear one apart from trying to belittle me. Rock on dude
