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Quote from: --Encrypted-- on April 01, 2015, 07:33:33 PM

your thoughts? will air travel truly be safer without a pilot?

It could be safer, but travelling by plane is usually very safe. I think self-driving cars have a bigger potential for making our lives safer and it will take years to actually get there.

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Quote from: --Encrypted-- on April 01, 2015, 07:33:33 PM

source: http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/27/news/companies/pilotless-passenger-planes/index.html

Would you be willing to fly on a plane with no pilot?

The technology exists, even if no airline is currently thinking about trying it.

The tragic Germanwings crash in the Alps this week -- which allegedly was caused deliberately by the copilot -- raises the question: Would it make sense to fly planes without pilots?

Some experts say the answer is yes.

"Planes can already fly themselves," said Mary "Missy" Cummings, a former Air Force pilot, an engineering professor and director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University.

"Pilots only spend 3 minutes per flight flying a plane anyway, and they don't really need to do that," she said. About 80% of plane crashes are caused by human error, she adds.

The U.S. military already flies Global Hawk drones, which are nearly the size of a the widely-used Boeing 737 passenger jets. And military data shows that drone flights crash less often than piloted flights, Cummings said.

But so far businesses working on drones are looking only at non-passenger uses, like making deliveries or taking aerial pictures.

your thoughts? will air travel truly be safer without a pilot?

They've already proved and autopilot can take off, fly a route and land successfully so I see no reason why not. It might make sense to have a remote override system should a problem arise.

The good thing with machines is they're not affected by emotion unless programmed that way. The Alps tragedy wouldn't have happened in a pilotless plane.

It makes sense that things will evolve this way. Driverless cars etc. Doubt it will happen for years though.

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source: http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/27/news/companies/pilotless-passenger-planes/index.html

Would you be willing to fly on a plane with no pilot?

The technology exists, even if no airline is currently thinking about trying it.

The tragic Germanwings crash in the Alps this week -- which allegedly was caused deliberately by the copilot -- raises the question: Would it make sense to fly planes without pilots?

Some experts say the answer is yes.

"Planes can already fly themselves," said Mary "Missy" Cummings, a former Air Force pilot, an engineering professor and director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University.

"Pilots only spend 3 minutes per flight flying a plane anyway, and they don't really need to do that," she said. About 80% of plane crashes are caused by human error, she adds.

The U.S. military already flies Global Hawk drones, which are nearly the size of a the widely-used Boeing 737 passenger jets. And military data shows that drone flights crash less often than piloted flights, Cummings said.

But so far businesses working on drones are looking only at non-passenger uses, like making deliveries or taking aerial pictures.

your thoughts? will air travel truly be safer without a pilot?

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