Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
You can scoff if you want. Your prerogative. Kinda like buying stock options....it's the timing of the bet that's important.
20 years from now when FSD cars are the norm not the exception, military/cargo aircraft are flying automatously , and the public has embraced the technology....?
As long as humans keep effing flying ops up killing people, and the general public understands that planes have had to "fly themselves" in the most demanding weather for years and years and years....they might(will?) change their tune. Featherbedding will be the only stop-gap.
That's correct. I always use the elevator analogy. In 1910 every elevator in Manhattan had an operator. I'm sure 'automated' electromechanical ones initially made some people nervous, now nobody except a tiny fraction of the population with a phobia bats an eyelash about getting in one. Ubiquity is coming.
It's anybody's guess how long we can hold it back and maybe we'll get lucky with a high profile accident to keep public opinion on our side a little longer but pretending it's more than a 20 year old's career away is fantastical thinking. Especially since some of you think that 20 year old should fly until 70.