Originally Posted by
Tray Surfer
Never, I hope. As, once again, humans seem hell bent on doing them selves out of a job.
No, what humans want is not to be held hostage by other humans having an argument with another human and themselves becoming a casualty.
e.g. train driver and employer in dispute - its the travelling public who suffer the most inconvenience and they are not a party to the dispute.
Automate train operation like the vast number of metro's in the world and thats one more self-entitled, overpaid train driver put of the loop.
Although like you, I doubt that aircraft will be fully automated in this century as a train can coast to a stop safely in most circumstances whereas the end state for any significant aircraft failure is 'death of passengers'.