Originally Posted by
TrojanCMH
If someone makes an avionics upgrade like they did with MD-10 at FedEx that implemented this theoretical technology then I think you’d see it at cargo first. If not then who knows… Maybe a startup.
It will not be a retrofit to existing airframes, it will have to be clean-sheet. Too much integration with existing systems, plus additional backup systems. At least for pax ops. You *might* be able to retrofit an existing airplane, but it seems that would cost too much... more economical to bake into a new design, or at least a major update of an existing design.
Also... the airframe industry is currently jumping through hoops to be ready for possible (likely) future draconian carbon mandates. How much R&D cash do they have to blow on hypothetical autonomy that requires an AI that doesn't exist, which they wouldn't know how to certify if it did?