Aye man, it's my opinion. Do what you want with it. Don't bid, and hate on the 73 all you want, especially if you're senior to me.

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I don’t hate it man, I’ve been on it for six years and will be here at least two more. I just want people to understand it’s drawbacks, which were being minimized here.

Our Tesla has that ability (camera aimed at the driver and software that categorizes driver activity). The car currently requires minimal torque on the steering wheel to confirm driver monitoring. With the implementation of Full Self Driving the car is switching the monitoring of the driver monitoring to the internal camera. If the driver picks up a phone and starts texting the car will warn that automation is being taken away. Then after fair warning, disable the autopilot for the remainder of that trip.

Systems wise the airplane is much more of a complex machine. Then again, Space X rockets seem to land on the X pretty routinely.

Heaven help us if we implement cameras monitoring the pilots monitoring. Look at "study material" the thing beeps at you then takes away the autopilot and auto thrust :-)

What is going to be GREAT is when we can send our CyberTruck to Home Depot, have them load the thing and send it back. That thing would be a death machine without the onboard tech.

The thing is, autonomy is a lot harder than Tesla thought it would be .... and they designed the entire product around the concept (Tesla's are basically CAT3B with dual everything and a monitoring channel). Two brake paths, two steering motors, literally redundancy equal or greater than a 737. I think autonomous aircraft will have to have the capability designed in, not added on.

The lady who asked me to work on the product started her pitch with "pilots cause 80% of all accidents, so what if we just remove the pilots?"

I said, "you got the wrong guy Lady"

https://www.techexplorist.com/wp-con...otic-pilot.jpg

Your arrogance is fascinating.... no... it's entertaining.

They are going to be testing driverless Lyft in Miami by year's end. They will have a safety driver on board for awhile, but how long do you reasonably think that would be? A year or two? That is the blink of an eye. And they are talking about that NOW. Personally I think doing an airplane will be easier because you have less congestion to deal with, and once you get to the cruise phase you can put it on autopilot until you wake up the pilot for descent. Maintaining separation between two opposite direction vehicles on some country two lane road going 60 miles/hour has to be much much harder.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technolo...ars-miami-lyft

Let’s just say I’m a nefarious, money hungry, not entirely honest individual or group of individuals. The value of hacking a Tesla is peanuts next to an airplane. What’s the value of a remotely piloted 777 full of cargo over the Pacific? A350 full of people? While remotely piloted seems like a great idea for reducing costs, the external control architecture also introduces vulnerabilities that are significant from a technological standpoint and even more significant from a strategic risk standpoint for the first company that bets its future on not getting hacked while an airplane of precious cargo is airborne. Our utility as pilots isn’t at risk as many hype men would like you to believe as they sell their visions of the future.

I can’t tell, is that a robot arm with a Starbucks cup being dumped on the pedestal?

Is that a DC3?

I can't get the internet to work half the time in the plane, and when it does, it doesn't stay on. I think we're ok with the single pilot/no pilot thing for a while...