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Old 11-04-2022 | 01:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Browntown
This should give pause to any new flight students....you may not have a 30 much less, 20 year career.

Boeing’s next airliner may be designed to fly autonomously, Calhoun said, though it may not operate without pilots from the start. He said that Wisk, a California-based company in which Boeing owns a controlling stake that’s developing a four-seat autonomous electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft intended to serve as an air taxi, is one of the company’s key avenues for developing autonomous flight technology.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyb...h=1768c91b279d
It will also be fully green and super sonic, hyper sonic, faster than light. Boeing can't even make regular planes well. I do think the future is single pilot/pilotless but that is very far away since autonomous driving and AI has hit some kind of limit in how well and consistently it can operate. Maybe in 50 years we will see this become a replacement to commercial pilots, and even then it probably won't be from Boeing. It seems like such an easy grift to mock up some CGI and slap together a model and make huge promises then just rake in cash from investors. Why actually invent or engineer something when you can just say you will and collect the money faster for less work. You can even pay people in experience and exposure. We should just say we will 100% all our metrics, and every flight is direct to your personal destination for everyone on the plane. Burbank? Honolulu? Sioux Falls? Amsterdam? Yea we'll be there in 30 minutes.
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