Originally Posted by CBreezy

So, you don't have any. Got it. You're just bad at drawing useful conclusions.

An airplane can take off and land all by itself does not equate to removing all pilots and automating everything. The problem with driverless cars are not that they can't drive themselves. That's been successfully proven over and over. It's that they can't interact 100% successfully with the human element. When they do it wrong, it isn't like "oops, they made the wrong turn." No. Someone is hurt or someone dies. That is unacceptable risk when the alternative is it not happening and paying maybe an extra 50 cents per passenger. And they don't have the pattern recognition and learning capability of humans yet. Just this summer alone I've batted away a bad vector into dangerous activity the next gen aircraft radar did not see dozens of times. Ever been to NY? You think those controllers care about flying you through moderate turbulence? Or when I got reroutes that would have had me landing with no gas. Or when I've gotten reroutes that put us behind 30 minutes but we were able to ask for shortcuts getting us in on time. None of this the computer can do. When you give a computer an instruction it isn't able to do, it doesn't usually give alternative suggestions. It just says no. We aren't there yet.

We haven't fully automated trains yet and that should be the single easiest and cost effective change.