I was wondering what people’s thaughts on this topic are, and what you think the unions will do when aviation companies attempt to do this? My personal opinion is that it is inevitable in the not to distant future, just unsure how the industry will react to it?

I’m sure it will start in another country with air freight and spread from there.

Plenty of threads on this.


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Trains aren’t even driverless, so until that happens it won’t be anytime soon.

I have been wondering about this a lot lately. I think we will see some form of it in my lifetime, and on the surface there stands be to a lot of economic incentive for someone to figure out how to do it. My opinion is it will take a long time, and I doubt passenger planes will be pilotless in the next 5 decades. Technology advances at amazing rates though.

I can just imagine the size of the IT department trying to keep that them running.

Might gain some traction, then one goes in the dirt and that will be the end.

From an aviation claims perspective, the first time a small automated commuter aircraft like those being developed crashes into a building downtown and plummets to the ground, killing 10s of people, the movement will be set back 10 years at least. Right now a Cessna 172 crash is still an exotic way to die and the media swarms like flies to s&*t. Countless people will post videos on twitter and youtube of the unfolding disaster. Then the lawsuits will roll in and these start ups will shell out big bucks to make it go away. They might be financially robust enough for 5-10 death death settlements, but the optics alone will be a major blow.

Now scale that up to airliner size. Insurers won't insure them, so the risk is 100% on the airline/manufacturer. One crash is bad. But then if there is another? Oh boy, the lawyers will come after them with everything they got, punitive, possibly criminal damages. The MAX issue times 10.