Originally Posted by
Boeing Aviator
My two cents.
When the majority of adults over 35 to 40 have grown up in a automated society most specifically cars, buses and trucks and it’s a generally accepted norm. Then will start the move to pilotless aircraft. Until then the technology may be available but it will not be universally accepted. I believe pilots will be one of the last jobs automated and replaced by robots.
Doctors, lawyers etc. will be replaced before pilots in my humble opinion. I believe most on this forum will be retired before this happens for pilotless airliners.
Accountants will be the first to be automated, they will probably be eliminated in the next ten years. Most doctors will also be eliminated by AI, and there is a major push for this, because third world countries desperately need the help from healthcare shortages.
I highly doubt we will see fully automated 121 aircraft, single pilot absolutely, but not zero pilot. For those that say you need a single pilot aircraft to be fully automated due to incapacitation, you are wrong.