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Old 3rd Dec 2017, 03:35
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tdracer
 
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Perceptions change. Wait until driverless cars are perfected and the automotive accident rate plummets. Once that happens, every time there is an aircraft disaster caused by "pilot error" there will be an outcry about why do we still have fallible humans piloting these things.
It won't happen soon, but it will happen.
In my lifetime, we've gone from a world where they sold flight life insurance in the airports (because many insurance policy's specifically excluded aircraft accidents) to a world where it is no exaggeration that the most dangerous part of flying is the drive to the airport. 100 years ago most people wouldn't even dream of using an aircraft to cross an ocean - now not only is it common, it's pretty much the only option. Assuming we avoid blowing ourselves up, life 100 years in the future will be similarly unimaginable.
Computers are getting exponentially more capable - humans not so much.
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