Originally Posted by
744ButtonPusher
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.
Hence single 'pilot' ops. There seems to be some confusion that a single pilot airliner will be like a single pilot business jet. It will be a 0 pilot airliner with as you say, a human at something that look like controls to placate the public.
I predict the procedure to actually take control of it will look something like the nuclear launch authentication protocol in Crimson Tide.
The canary in the coal mine will be ATC. Once they automate that and develop a secure communication protocol for it then the table is set.