Originally Posted by
CleCapt
The discussion was about moving people. In that context, it will not happen in my lifetime, and I'm no where near retirement.
For all the reasons mentioned in this post, no matter what the price of the ticket, people will not get on a pilotless plane, passengers are not that stupid. Consider the variables that may or may not exist on current drones. Snow storms, Slick taxi ways, slick high speed turn offs, short runways (SNA,LGA,DCA) Deicing, and the thousands of variables that pilots take into consideration every day.
We agree to disagree.
That's probably what the guy that drove the elevator back in the day said, as well as the trolley driver. How many of our customers blindly get on a train/people mover at the airport and don't give a crap that there is no one driving it? (LAS/EWR/TPA just to name a few examples)
Once they figure out that you can control a few large cargo transports across the ocean with a few guys in a trailer park, how long will Jeff Bezos wait? That's definitely cheaper than paying a few thousand freight dogs.
Cargo will fall first, while 121 drops its crew requirement down to 1 pilot because of the 'shortage' we will experience. Think about it. Before a worldwide pandemic even ended, two idiots decided now would be a great time to start another domestic airline. One even tried to get free labor by announcing flight attendants would only be for college interns.
The point of the article is that technology is coming for your job. You can ignore it, invest in it, or call your congressman. Telling me that we disagree is just winding the clock.