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.
Full self driving on crazy roads, bad paint, obstacle threats, etc is far more difficult than full self flying airplane, imo, but the difference is the car can stop if things are not right. The airplane cannot so to the average person it’s a nonstarter.