Pilotless planes are coming.
No thanks, I've been in a few bad crosswind landings I wouldn't trust a computer to handle.
Nearly dipped the wing into the tarmac.
“Pilotless planes are coming.”
Not with me in one. There are five basic causes of aircraft accidents:
Pilot error, mechanical defects, weather problems, ATC errors, and other factors that can contribute to a plane crash, including sabotage, bird hits, and poor runway maintenance.
And three of the five of them are a computer related problem and one of the others can be. When you take the pilot out of the flight deck you take out both the human error and the human determination of change. I will trust the human a lot more than the computer. (737-800’s)
It is estimated that half of the air accidents are pilot error. That leaves the other half to multi related incidents. But the pilots don’t fly the aircraft, the computer does. So is the pilot there to make mistakes or correct most of them. On each flight there could have been a lot of ways to stick it in the mountain the pilot corrected because the computer screwed it up. Pilot versus computer? Take your pick.
rwood.