Originally Posted by
horrido27
INTERNET Win of the Day!
Ain't that the truth...
Interesting read about the issues they (Boeing) are now having with the 787's in one of the recent AW&ST.
We are WAYS from this happening... though not around the corner- probably somewhere on the distant horizon.
Amen.
All good here, thanks for asking (and PM sent).
Every time I fly, I realize how important a human being is in the cockpit. No matter WHAT they try to do to stream line the operations, the "unknowns" continue to crop up.
Oh, and going into MCO the other evening we got 4 runway changes in a 10 minute timeframe. We stuck with the 3rd one but you have to wonder how a computer/AI would have handled that?!
FS, FP & FtC
Always
Motch
The way I see it, it would be remotely piloted. So in the terminal area, you would have a man in the loop, albeit with a slight time delay. A computer/AI would be the follow on spiral, if you will.
Think about it. China decides to build a cargo freighter. Amazon decides to buy it. Will anyone care if a 767 sized drone is flying rubber dog crap from mainland China across the Pacific Ocean? XMN to ANC and back. Once that thing has upset the marketplace, just like other disrupters (i.e. Tesla, Amazon, Apple, etc) it will be game on. Even if the FAA says no to ANC, Canada or Mexico would be happy for jobs unloading that thing on a regular basis. Nobody is going to tell me that Mexico would say no for 'safety' concerns.