Lawsuit reduction.

I know the Atlas pilot family is suing Atlas and Amazon and others for a whole host of claims.

If it's always going to be the mfg's fault, they might as well automate it, then they can at least control it. I think Boeing is likely to make a HUGE push into automation as well after the Max disaster (ie don't assume person in loop is a reliable safety factor especially on low time overseas pilots with poor local MX - yes, a bad design as well). Amazon has to be on board after Atlas and the claims against them from that crash.

Cargo would be a reasonable place to start this, though I would have expected somewhere overseas.

Going to take a while, but will happen. A few more Atlas pilots hiding their work histories, crashing, then suing their company and plane manufacturer and customers may help it move along more quickly.

Amazon is getting slammed for overworking and mistreating their ABX pilots as well. Automation has to be a wet dream for them.