Originally Posted by
svergin
Planes, ATC, and the entire aviation infrastructure would have to be completely redesigned and rebuilt for pilotless planes.
What do you think the NextGen air traffic system is all about?
Human pilots are the safest thing going. Anything else would be exponentially less safe.
Human pilots are the leading cause of hull losses.
Don’t tell me about self-driving cars, because the order of magnitude of simplicity to make a car drive itself is hundreds of times easier...
Not really. Self driving cars will have to deal with a lot more of the “human factor” (e.g. human driven cars, bicyclists, pedestrians, etc.) and humans unpredictability is hard to program for. There would be significantly less of that problem with flying.