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>Such aircraft are complex to control but produce less aerodynamic drag, making them more efficient to fly. Fuel effciency is big incentivising factor in the a
by s_dev 7y ago
>Such aircraft are complex to control but produce less aerodynamic drag, making them more efficient to fly.
Fuel effciency is big incentivising factor in the airline industry. If we can have an AI control the extra complexity involved to bring safety to a par I can see prototypes being made for further experiments. It is visually interesting though.
- bangboombang 7y agoYes, after the 737-MAX I absolutely want more computers, AI, blockchain, cloud, microservices, HTTP/3 and big data in the planes I'm boarding.
- s_dev 7y agoThose technologies are already used heavily by the airline industry which is extemely dependant on software and it probably will continue to build on that dependency.
- arnon 7y agoRedundancy of flight controls with Kubernetes. If a flight control goes offline, Kubernetes auto-heals.
- skriticos2 7y agoThe problem with the 737-MAX was not that it used a computer. It was that the 737 series is generally not designed to be fly-by-wire and it was rammed in there to keep previous flight characteristics and just generally downplay the design ramifications of putting a much more massive engine below the wings that tilts the center of gravity considerably and changes flight characteristics. Airbus is doing fine with fly-by-wire. They do so because they start with it at the design stage and don't haphazardly change major aerodynamic characteristics without going back to the drawing board and thinking through all the ramifications. There is much more to say what went wrong and it's fairly well documented in public sources and little of it was because computers (though there is something to be said about the code quality culture at Boeing, but that's a different topic).
- danielbarla 7y agoInterestingly though, main (sole?) purpose of MCAS was to reduce the cost of (re-)training human pilots, so the logic has kind of come full circle.
- markus92 7y agoAirbus has been fully fly-by-wire for a long time now. It's one of the main differences with Boeing.
- reportgunner 7y agoMaybe we can also have an AI that decides if you are carbon positive or carbon negative when you buy the plane ticket. It perhaps could be connected to your car and phone, turning them off once you take a carbon positive flight.