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We're hiring! https://reliable.co/careers/ https://reliable.co/careers/ We built avionics, software, mechanisms and a comm system that enables automated opera
by bobbriody 6y ago
We're hiring!
https://reliable.co/careers/ https://reliable.co/careers/
We built avionics, software, mechanisms and a comm system that enables automated operation of the plane from a remote command station. The remote operator has a GUI where they can command the aircraft.
This article goes into a bit more detail about how it works: https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/with-tesla-and-spacex-credentials-start-up-flies-pilotless-caravan/139905.article https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/with-tesla-and-space...
- zaphirplane 6y agoI find it strange that autonomous car driving innovations are done by specialized companies and not the dominant car makers. The same for aircraft. At least the technology news bubble makes it seem so, it’s like they are waiting for someone to eat their lunch, hello Walkman and camera
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoNo remote positions?
- bobbriody 6y agoSome positions require on-site but we're open to remote and have quite a few remote folks already.
- cbsks 6y agoWhich positions can be remote? All the positions on the website say they are located in Mountain View.
- geocrasher 6y agoI'd like to ask a question that I'm curious about and I'm sure some others are too: What does it take to be a remote UAV pilot in a civilian setting? What kind of training or experience are looked for or are required? I'm sure there are many armchair pilots and RC enthusiasts who have similar questions.
- 0xfaded 6y agoSuper awesome. Is ITAR required?
- sgtnoodle 6y agoI know a lot of the Reliable Robotics team from past projects, and they're an especially talented group of people. I would be working there now if I wasn't committed to my current project.
- powerinspace 6y agoDrones delivering blood is still pretty badass too!
- eggsome 6y agoWhat is your opinion of open source solutions like ArduPilot?
- azinman2 6y agoWhat I haven't seen is any mention of what happens to all the pilots out there. Between COVID and now this, it seems like the path of a great middle/upper middle class job that's lasted for decades is doomed. For UPS/Fedex, I would also guess that the salary of the pilot is effectively a rounding error on all of the total costs of transporting objects around the world. What are your thoughts on this?
- scoopertrooper 6y agoI think it's unfair to ask a technology startup to answer a public policy question. Economic forces will drive automation of these sorts of tasks one way or another, which will shift income away from labour and towards capital. It's up to governments to ensure the winners compensate the losers. In the long term, this may be an UBI, but for now it should take the form of retraining and economic adjustment packages (similar to what might occur when tariffs are repealed). This should be funded by a super-profits tax on heavily automated industries.
- azinman2 6y agoWe all are responsible for our actions on the world. The government doesn’t set policy that says pilots should be automated, and I wouldn’t necessarily assume this is inevitable at all. Government can only be reactionary, and these things are happening without a larger societal conversation that says yes we want this. So I do believe this is a fair question to ask. It would be unethical to not consider ones actions.
- zamadatix 6y agoOne must also consider the ethics of wasting human life and skill on something that can be efficiently automated while other tasks lie undone. Either way I agree with the parent comment, this is a public policy question about how to make sure people are able to maintain lucrative lives (education policy, monetary policy, social policy) not a question for the business making an existing task more efficient and expecting them to answer what society wants to do with the freed time.
- bfuclusion 6y agoQuestion: Where do you see the FARs going with drones like this?