Originally Posted by
Vincent Chase
Seriously? Sure people can't drive worth crap, especially if you're used to flying 6-9 miles a minute with a wingman 5-1500 feet from you as you do it on NVGs and what not.
I'd take these people who can't drive worth crap over a computer that has shown the ability to be hacked at the drop of a hat sharing my roadspace.
Imagine some guy with the ability to crash an automated car on all the bridges in NYC. Or at all choke points in any major city.
Automation will bring on worse problems than habitual drunks or teens texting.
Now put this into an aviation perspective. How about hacking a widebody and holding it hostage? I know I'll never fly on a fully automated plane.
And before you all start screaming, "airbus is fly by wire" I'll throw this out. I don't fly that.
I don't know how realistic a threat to self driving cars hacking is. The cars are pretty much a closed system, i believe. So short of plugging in a thumb drive with hacked software, how can one cause your traffic jam on the Brooklyn Bridge?