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Freightliner Just Revealed The First Real Road-Legal Autonomous Big Rig
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<blockquote data-quote="FrigidAdCorrector" data-source="post: 1618585"><p>While valid, an aircraft is also far more complicated than a truck. </p><p></p><p>I know how the scales work. But you are also not talking about something that can not be overcome. There are people far smarter than you or I working on it.</p><p></p><p>No, pretty every commercial airliner can do it. When you're in the ground you plug in your route of flight in the FMS and hit load. When you take off and reach 1000 feet you click the autopilot and it flies you all the way to 1000 feet on landing. FedEx even has aircraft that can do what we call 0/0. So no visibility. The autopilot will fly it all the way to touchdown point. The technology is there. The cost is prohibitive at the moment, and so is the idea of removing pilots from the equation.</p><p></p><p>You only need 1000 feet vertical separation. But even still I get traffic alerts in a Cessna skyhawk. My mom's Lexus beeps when someone strays into her lane. Why wouldn't they be able to program a computer to sense that? If anything a computer should be able to react in a more rational way than humans because you don't have the "Oh crap!" factor to mix in and you can program it's limits so it won't tip or cause another accident.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrigidAdCorrector, post: 1618585"] While valid, an aircraft is also far more complicated than a truck. I know how the scales work. But you are also not talking about something that can not be overcome. There are people far smarter than you or I working on it. No, pretty every commercial airliner can do it. When you're in the ground you plug in your route of flight in the FMS and hit load. When you take off and reach 1000 feet you click the autopilot and it flies you all the way to 1000 feet on landing. FedEx even has aircraft that can do what we call 0/0. So no visibility. The autopilot will fly it all the way to touchdown point. The technology is there. The cost is prohibitive at the moment, and so is the idea of removing pilots from the equation. You only need 1000 feet vertical separation. But even still I get traffic alerts in a Cessna skyhawk. My mom's Lexus beeps when someone strays into her lane. Why wouldn't they be able to program a computer to sense that? If anything a computer should be able to react in a more rational way than humans because you don't have the "Oh crap!" factor to mix in and you can program it's limits so it won't tip or cause another accident. [/QUOTE]
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