I assume that the pilot will still have windows, but it's possible to imagine an aircraft with no windows at all. An interesting thought experiment is to consi

I assume that the pilot will still have windows, but it's possible to imagine an aircraft with no windows at all. An interesting thought experiment is to consider a car with no windows; the driver wears a head-mounted display and sees the environment via a 3-D model reconstructed from cameras. My initial reaction is that it seems terribly unsafe to have a safety-critical system like that with no backup if your HMD fails for some reason. On the other hand, I could imagine becoming accustomed to seeing all around without obstruction, and feeling uncomfortable driving a regular car with it's opaque pillars and huge expanses of fragile glass. Another consideration is that encountering a car with no windows would feel really creepy. We're used to be able to make eye contact.