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.
a self driving car is one thing, a plane full of people is completely and will always be completely different.
the military can’t keep preds from going lost link, they won’t be flying unmanned cargo in the NAS anytime soon. Not to mention Until there is such thing as an un-hackable system (will never exist) no one is getting on a passenger airliner that doesn’t have a human at the controls.