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The pilot isn't needed, he's just there as a backup. https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/479633-coming-soon-planes-without-pilots https://thehill.com/opinio

• worrycue 5y ago
  Don’t think people are ready for pilotless planes. Computers are good at doing exactly what you tell them to do. But in novel situations that they haven’t been programmed for, they have zero common sense to negotiate the situation. That said I don’t mind virtual pilots that double check the decisions of human pilots and sound the alarm if something doesn’t match up but otherwise you wouldn’t even know it’s there - kind of like a spell checker; then we have the best of both worlds.
  • kjaftaedi 5y ago
    They won't start with passenger planes, first will be cargo flights, then once this is accepted as normal, it will become more ubiquitous over time. Your 'common sense' remark is likely referring to fly by wire, which was created in the 1940s and adopted commercially in the 70s and 80s Intelligent flight control systems using neural networks have been developed heavily over the past 20 years and will become a large piece of this as well.