Originally Posted by
YXnot
nice try its Gault

Actually, it's Galt.
Originally Posted by Mesabah
The best software reliability is around 99%, so a completely automated plane would error about 1% of the time. Which is several million dead passengers a year. Automation......not going to happen in our lifetimes. Remote controlled maybe, but that is far more expensive to maintain than pilots.
Are you assuming that every error will result in a fatal accident? Certainly not every human pilot error results in such a dismal outcome.....