Originally Posted by C130driver

Your title is intellectually dishonest. Companies invest in start-ups all the time, especially tech giants. If, for any reason, sometimes much can be learned through R+D even if the original idea (“A.I” in the cockpit) doesn’t come to fruitition. This would hardly mean they are serious about it. Quite a leap to still produce 1950s technology 737s to autonomous airplanes.