Hey by all means research it, develop it and test it. However if the software in your car fails, it might just stop running. If the software on a complex jet that controls not only the avionics but wing structure malfunctions, that mass up the air obeys the laws of physics and falls to the ground. People die. Read the news lately?
If we stopped flying planes after every mechanical or software design screwup, we’d have the New Green Deal!
You do realize that 99% of flying is done by computers right?
“If the software on a complex jet that controls not only the avionics but wing structure malfunctions, that mass up the air obeys the laws of physics and falls to the ground. People die. Read the news lately?”
There is a right way and a wrong way to do that sort of software. Code done the right way flights on thousands of airplanes everyday and they get their safely. The problem on the MAX was not software as a concept. It was how they did one part of a very complicated plane. Planes already have code in them that if it was bugged the plane would literally fall out of the sky, even worse than those two accidents. Claiming software is to blame is like saying rubber is to blame for SUV rollovers.
By the way, know why you don’t hear about many fatal SUV rollovers anymore? Stability control software. Saves lives every day.