Originally Posted by
horrido27
When the first ACTUAL driverless Taxi Cab is in operation in an actual city, when the first driverless Bus is running from city to city, when we see driverless trucks on the highway-
Only THEN is the possibility of a pilotless transport a reality.
Sure, for point A to B you could "fly" a pilotless vehicle. They do it now- they are called Drones. But those drones are very specific and limited to where and what they can do.
It will take new aircraft from Boeing & Airbus. Clean sheet aircraft with built in, hardened systems.
Boeing can't even get a 50+ yr old airplane right.. they can't build a 756 replacement.. we are decades from when the first true Cargo Flight happens over populated free world with no one in the pilot seat.
Interestingly enough, it was back in the late teens (2017-2019) that people and certain industries were touting that we would have pizza and amazon deliveries by drones in 2020. Hmmm....
Motch
FS, FP & FtC
Motch
Hope all is well.
While I have some background knowledge on such a concept, I really can’t go into it. Suffice it to say not only would the aircraft have to be firewalled but the data link comm and the operations center managing the aircraft.
The RQ4 reference in an earlier post demonstrates that very point. DARPA commander told me in 1995 the U-2 would be retired by the year 2000…..
The UCAV would replace manned fighters…..
Not.
We are not even close and agree there will have to be simpler demonstrations of success such as autonomous taxis well before the dynamic three dimensional world of aviation is considered plausible much less viable.