ArmyFW

Yea you’re right I read through most of them but the last 10 pages were just back and forth about one small issue so I gave up.

jcountry

Yep....

Robots are really rocking these days....

AI is smaaaart....
https://arstechnica.com/information-...-hospitalized/

TransWorld

I guarantee you that AI will get your pilotless plane on the ground...it will take you all the way to the scene of the crash.

Razorback flyer

Just sayin...

capclanc

My 2 cents are this. They can put a rover on Mars, so of course they could replace two pilots. But there’s way too much liability to do that right now. I mean, look at Space X. We have rockets that can land themselves, but what happens when there is an emergency? Those rockets sink to the bottom of the ocean. The same could happen with a fully automated aircraft. I’m sure it could fly flawlessly in standard conditions, but as soon as there is a “nonstandard” emergency the AI would crash. Plus you would have to keep in mind around the same time that there will most likely be other planes being hand flown, or at least wouldn’t be fully automated. So there would be a risk there as well, since you wouldn’t be able talk to a AI, it would just run its program until it landed. In short, I think the tech is possible but it would take years to get approved and implemented.

HalinTexas

How many high speed rail systems have you seen or heard that do. It have an operator up front?

Shinkansen does. The Chinese systems do. All they have to do is go forward and occasionally backward.

When those are replaced with HAL9000, and autonomous mass transit in general, then you’ll see it in aviation in a few decades.

I won’t be on an airplane without a pilot. I trust them to be just as reliable as the engineers that designed them.

tm602

I'll just say....US 1549. No amount of artificial intelligence could have done that. None.
And I'll also throw in UAL 232. No AI would have been able to do that either. Anyone who knows the UAL 232 story well (ie has heard Al Haynes speak and tell the whole story) knows that the human judgement will never be replaced by AI. That's why it called ARTIFICIAL Intelligence.

Aero1900

I believe the path forward will be single pilot with a remote backup pilot/super dispatcher sitting at HQ.

I do not believe we will see fully autonomous, artificial intelligence aircraft until long after we are all dead.

There are many barriers to this of course, most of which have been discussed here already, but to me, cyber security is a big one. If the industry eventually goes towards single pilot with remote backup, I see cyber security being a very tough hurdle. I'm no computer security expert, but from what I see in the news, hackers are definitely winning the war over security. Virtually every company and government worth hacking, has been hacked. An aircraft with remote operating systems would be a prime terrorist target, and I don't think we can secure that properly.

BobZ

Yup. That single pilot thing worked out well for germanwings.

More likely to see a pilot and a dog before a pilot alone.

Larry in TN

Have you ever used inflight wifi internet?