this statement belies a lack of understanding of just how long autoland has existed. Guess which decade autoland was invented... and what decade commercial se

this 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.