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I think many of you only look at this proliferation of automation in the cockpit as a threat to your well being, and I understand that. I'm not going to sit in the back and fly on an airliner without a couple of well trained pilots up front. I know my perspective is probably a lot different but I will climb a mountain and scream from the top that automation can't replace two well trained people when things get skippy. There is a large portion of the general public that does not trust computers when it's their ass on the line.
 
DropTank said:
What did the Tesla crash into?
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Nothing it was on autopilot and just abruptly came to a stop. Then chaos happened.

Guys we just had a shut down of the whole system this week, I don't think that many of us here have to worry about Skynet taking our jobs. But the next generation of pilots, who knows.
 
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knot4u said:
I think many of you only look at this proliferation of automation in the cockpit as a threat to your well being, and I understand that. I'm not going to sit in the back and fly on an airliner without a couple of well trained pilots up front. I know my perspective is probably a lot different but I will climb a mountain and scream from the top that automation can't replace two well trained people when things get skippy. There is a large portion of the general public that does not trust computers when it's their ass on the line.
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Make it cheap enough and the passengers will show up. Trying to stop technological advances is a fool’s errand.
 
Maximilian_Jenius said:
My guy, you're gonna be alright!

theintercept.com

Exclusive: Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge Hours After Elon Musk Announces "Self-Driving" Feature

Elon Musk has said Tesla’s problematic autopilot features are “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.”
theintercept.com theintercept.com
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While the somewhat "sudden" stop of the TESLA was problematic, that crash was actually perpetuated by the idiots behind it.

I mean, a car stopped in the middle of a highway isn't something new.







 
Wardogg said:
While the somewhat "sudden" stop of the TESLA was problematic, that crash was actually perpetuated by the idiots behind it.

I mean, a car stopped in the middle of a highway isn't something new.







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ICE cars crash about 17,250 times per day. Never hear a word about it. One Tesla has a no-fault accident? The media loses their minds!
 
Fixtur said:
There's still going to be plenty of jets that require two pilots until well after we retire.
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I was just thinking the other day. Not even 5 years ago "glass cockpit" experience was a commodity to have. I haven't flown steam gauges since my initial training. Those steam gauged airplanes are going to need real manly men and womenly women to fly them well into the future.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
The question isn’t about whether pilots will still be needed. The question is how many. Yes, airplanes with flight engineers were still around for years after I started my career. But that didn’t mean that a whole hell of a lot of flight engineer jobs hadn’t been decimated.
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Right in the feels.
 
SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
The question isn’t about whether pilots will still be needed. The question is how many. Yes, airplanes with flight engineers were still around for years after I started my career. But that didn’t mean that a whole hell of a lot of flight engineer jobs hadn’t been decimated.
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Didn’t they axe the panel on airplanes though accelerating it? This tech doesn’t seem to be able to just be stapled onto airplanes that are going to be around for 20+ years after purchase, at least that’s not how I understand it as of now.

I think the timeline from 2 to 1 is likely a lot further out than Previous pasts technology cutting guys up front. This next step is more like a huge leap. I can see it happening but I just don’t think it’s a massive worry right now.

what I’m more worried about is the attempts to cut augmented crews down to 2 pilot augmented flights that Asia is adamant on testing. That to me seems a lot closer than single pilot airliners.
 
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