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Last edited by oyarde; 06-21-2017 at 07:00 PM.
Do something Danke
We have replaced the engineer and navigator positions already with technology , we are down to just two positions now. If one gets sick or croaks, there is a back up. Passenger planes already have environmental systems for people, so the cost of having two pilots is minimal compared to the expensive systems that would need to be put in place AND maintained for a truely autonomous aircraft. Programming every possible senario, would it have allowed a landing in the Hudson? What happens when electrical power is interrupted or someone hacks into the computer? Fire? Gonna rely on a flight attendant out of high school to handle that? Etc. etc.
Cargo, maybe, someday. Insurance can afford to pay for lost widgets. But lose a few hundred people here and there. Company would be sued out of business when their competitors are offering piloted transportation that was available ( I know, buyer beware, but lawyers and the stupid public). I think it would be a great marketing strategy, "fly with us, we have humans onboard, just in case."
And the transition would still involve operators on the ground wrt to things like turbulence avoidance, etc. (a thing you have to look outside sometimes and use you years of experience to judge when to tell everyone to buckle up, as one of many examples) so there is that expense too. You are paying operators on the ground, then it is not that much more to have them in the actual aircraft when you break down there portion of the ticket price. I get less than $1 per hour of flight per passenger. People pay more for parking at an airport or taking a taxing to the airport than what they pay me to fly them somewhere.
I could go on and on about all the variables, needless to say, we will not see what you envision for many many decades.
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Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
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Just look at the election: the establishment tricked Americans into thinking they were doing something about political corruption. The people's power is being sold for scraps, by someone who literally bragged about selling government power in the primaries. Anyone who saw through the trick was constantly slandered and beaten into submission by the MSM. The new political correct is people like Rand Paul having to bite his tongue when asked why he doesn't like the presidents $#@!ty health care plan.
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No, probably not that soon. Right now everything is we own is, at one point or another, on a truck. With the introduction of 3D printers and drone delivery and paperless business and whatnot, I agree that day will gradually come. Trucking will be greatly reduced to say the least.
It's kind of a downer. Driving a truck is a pretty relaxing job. And an American heritage, really. For many years I got stuck being the truck driver among my main responsibilities. You're always the first one in to work and the last one to get back to shop, sometimes days later. But there's nothing more relaxing than being by yourself for extended hours and not having some asshat behind a desk barking at you. Not only that, but you see some really cool stuff. It's scenic as a mofo.
Last edited by Natural Citizen; 06-24-2017 at 04:16 PM.
Cargo ship that crashed into US destroyer reportedly on autopilot
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news...lot/103141378/
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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