“Stop trying to convince me that driverless is good for me.”
Fly much?
When Do Pilots Turn On the Autopilot?
“. Sperry developed the gyroscopic-based autopilot in 1912, just nine years after the Wright Brothers first flew, and built it on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, where the company was headquartered. In a 1914 demonstration, Lawrence Sperry and a sidekick stood on the wings of a plane while it flew straight and level past a crowd of stunned onlookers. Later, it took off and landed without assistance from a pilot.”
“If it’s a sunny day at a quiet airport, every pilot in the world would rather fly the plane by hand,” said the pilot from a major airline. “But if it’s busy or stormy, then a smart pilot decides to let the autopilot do some of our work.”
“If there’s weather, like storms we need to navigate around, or if it’s a very busy air traffic environment, like at JFK, LAX, or ORD, then it makes sense to put the autopilot in earlier—usually within the first few minutes after takeoff,”
https://thepointsguy.com/news/meet-george-when-do-airline-pilots-turn-on-the-autopilot/
Yeah but there is always a pilot and a copilot
It’s like cruise control on your car. Fine, use it. But still be awake and alert and on the job.