>I feel like we could easily get there before we got self-driving cars, if we wanted to. The environment has shown quite clearly that we don't want to. We'd p

>I feel like we could easily get there before we got self-driving cars, if we wanted to. The environment has shown quite clearly that we don't want to. We'd probably already have it if we did. The safety design of aviation relies on having multiple highly competent people in the loop on every flight and exercising their judgement on dozens of things. And that's for the best-case scenario, they also have to be capable of choosing and executing fallback plans when part of the overall system (the plane, air traffic, radio navigation, flying conditions, ground conditions, etc...) degrades or enters an unexpected state.