Originally Posted by
three1five
Replacing the nearly-absolute redundancy brought by a modern autopilot and two competent human pilots will be significantly more difficult than developing self driving cars. Self driving car development/acceptance appears to be progressing slowly.
Ford and VW just shut down an effort they thought would bring Level 4 autonomy to market because it’s in fact too far off. There’s already been over $100 billion spent on it and it’s still not close. And that’s just the technical challenges; before we get to the security ones. What good is TSA when a maldoer can just hack into an overhead 787?
I’ll worry about autonomous jets once they’ve perfected unhackable computers — which won’t be in my unborn grandchildrens’ lifetimes.