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>So you'd ban 50% of planes too (Airbus)? Aside from the obvious answers (planes are regulated differently from cars, getting a pilot's license requires more t
by romwell 2y ago
>So you'd ban 50% of planes too (Airbus)?
Aside from the obvious answers (planes are regulated differently from cars, getting a pilot's license requires more training, etc), let me point out that autopilots for planes existed for over a century, but we are only getting some semblance of that in cars now because flying is a much easier control problem to solve.
See, there's not many obstacles in the air.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoBy this year Tesla's fly-by-wire will be more reliable than Airbus simply due to number of miles driven and vehicles made.
- romwell 2y ago>By this year Tesla's fly-by-wire will be more reliable than Airbus simply due to number of miles driven and vehicles made. [citation needed] Flying is the safest mode of transportation by a large margin[1], so you'd need to fudge your metric quite a lot to arrive with that conclusion. That's before we get into the nitty-gritty of which incidents can be attributed to the autopilot failure to avoid apples-to-oranges comparisons. [1]https://www.cnn.com/travel/worried-about-flying-heres-what-the-experts-have-to-say/index.html https://www.cnn.com/travel/worried-about-flying-heres-what-t...
- dzhiurgis 2y agoUnsure why mention autopilot when talking fly-by-wire. Yes it won’t be as redundant as airplane fly-by-wire, but merely by putting miles and manufacturing hundreds of thousands copies one improves quality.