Originally Posted by
C130driver
I'm glad we are comparing something as simple as elevators to complex airplanes flying hundreds of pax across oceans, through deadly storms, peppered with hundreds of traffic.
Guys at work won't stop having this conversation either. Some are even having second thoughts about going to the airlines (good, more for the rest of us.). Yes, it MAY happen someday, but not soon enough that anyone should spin our wheels about it. The world is ending!!!!!
It's not apples to oranges. In the 50s you made phone calls by picking up the receiver and asking to be connected to "Mable" down the street. Today, we FaceTime each other from corners of the globe without blinking an eye. We are immersed in technology and it's exponential. We grow more comfortable handing over control to AI each day that passes. Just because people wouldn't be ok with riding in a pilotless airplane today does not mean they won't be in 2 or 3 decades from now.