Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
People can’t even drive normal cars on roads. What makes anyone think people can drive flying cars. What a disastrous idea. Unless they’re saying fully automatic flying cars, and in that case why not just make fully automated normal driving cars?
The issue with autonomous cars isn't the autonomous ones, it's getting them to interact with the human driven, unpredictable ones.
Fast forward about 30 secs in
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4
The figure 8 pattern is interesting (last sequence).
A computer controlled system controlling computer flown aircraft is a perfect combo. About the best thing we have going for us is small autonomous aircraft will still be extremely expensive on a CASM basis even without paying the pilot. Hopefully larger manned aircraft will compete economically for a while.
But, save your pennies. For those under 40 you'll probably be out of a job before you retire.
For sure, the smaller Caravan sized guys will be gone first, already happening in China.