vaxedtothemax

Social media already ate off most of it. Someone should have put Zucks out to pasture. It's now all the people who got beat up in high school and had no friends, who want to live in this AI META universe of virtual reality, running these mostly useless companies. They don't produce, make, or sell anything other than advertising space. They literally add no value whatsoever.

vaxedtothemax

Only people who would ever consider flying in a pilotless airplane would most likely be from the Bay Area. I feel that would be a great test market to start.

BlueScholar

Will it happen eventually? Probably. What is required to happen in the meantime? Something like all the the following, and likely even more.
LNAV/VNAV works 100% of the time without a hitch
5G interference is stopped and future 5G-esque tech conflicts are stopped in advance
Self driving cars (Tesla has completely given up on that)
CPDLC finally rolls out
Military RPA mishap rates approach manned aircraft mishap rates
Military RPA mishap rates approach manned cargo aircraft mishap rates
I'm allowed to sit in the cockpit alone while the other pilot takes a ****
Single pilot ops
Airlines invest billions of dollars in satellites to support RPA ops
Airlines invest billions of dollars in aircraft mods to support RPA ops
Invent s computer system that is hackproof and 100% fail safe


And it's safe to say that Boeing will be nowhere near the forefront of this technological breakthrough.

SonicFlyer

Yes, exactly. Because the government stifles upward socioeconomic movement from the middle class through taxes, inflation, and regulation (by design).

OOfff

I have no doubt this is your sincere belief

GogglesPisano

There will be a help desk number for a passenger to call. "Steve," will eventually answer after a "brief hold."

Armyguy

If my job gets automated I will just get a job as a ramper

do you see the irony? Cant even automate the 6 people running around the airplane or the fueler or the gate agent or the, good forbid the FA’s

until I see those jobs disappear then I aint worried

Nantonaku

Is there a thread on this board that you don’t ruin with your terrible unpunctuated takes?

OOfff

fixed that punctuation for you^

Cleared4appch

Lol it always cracks me up that it’s the pilots who they want to replace with automation instead of other jobs. They could easily design an automated ‘baggage train’ or something similar, like the plain train in ATL, that takes all the bags to and from the main terminal and to all of the airplanes they’re working on the ramps. No human driver, just fully automated. But, their excuses for not doing it yet are probably ‘because it’s too dangerous.’ 🙄

Until all the restaurants inside the terminals have replaced all cashiers with computers for people to self order, and until all gates at all airports have safe dock visual guidance systems instead of humans to guide the airplanes in, along with automatic tugs/automatic pushbacks, I’m still convinced we are still are a very, very long ways off from this happening with autonomous aircraft.