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Autonomous flight is a great example of the 80/20 rule. We've basically had "self flying" airplanes for decades, but to get them to 100% autonomous we need to s
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
Autonomous flight is a great example of the 80/20 rule. We've basically had "self flying" airplanes for decades, but to get them to 100% autonomous we need to spend all of the extra engineering effort into covering the remaining edge-cases + landing.
- paulmd 6y agothis statement belies a lack of understanding of just how long autoland has existed. Guess which decade autoland was invented... and what decade commercial service flights began making fully autonomous landings... (you're probably wrong) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland#Civil_aviation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland#Civil_aviation It is not, on the whole, that difficult a problem to actually land an aircraft autonomously. Now that planes can autonomously fly the rest of the route too, it makes sense to just take the pilot out of the cockpit.
- outworlder 6y ago> It is not, on the whole, that difficult a problem to actually land an aircraft autonomously. Sure, if you have ILS and it's operational. Large aircraft will not rely on GPS. It's a far more difficult problem to integrate such aircraft among the existing traffic. You are underestimating the effort of autonomous flight gate to gate.