[GaryCrow]

Pretty much everything involved with flying passenger jets has become computerized. Really, the pilots taxi to the runway and push a button and that's about it. They spend the rest of the flight monitoring gauges and taking naps.

Passenger liners could operate entirely unmanned except the flying public is not ready at this time to accept pilotless airplanes.

You could not possibly be more incorrect. It would take completely redesigning aircraft to make them pilotless. You're not going to retrofit something like this into an existing airplane, you'd have to build a completely new fleet of airplanes designed around pilotless operation. Making it fail safe enough for the FAA and traveling public to accept would take hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars. Far more money than the airlines will spend on pilots over the next 50 years. Tesla can't even make a self driving car that doesn't run over pedestrians in crosswalks. The first time a pilotless airliner crashes into a neighborhood on final to LAX and kills a thousand people it'll shelve that idea for the next 100 years.

[VTenigma]

Let’s make trains run autonomously first then we can talk. That’s my standard for this type of thing. Do trains, then we’ll start a conversation.