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Why doesn't it always autoland? We already have self driving cars, so a self flying plane seems imminent.
by charcircuit 11mo ago
Why doesn't it always autoland? We already have self driving cars, so a self flying plane seems imminent.
- TylerE 11mo agoBecause it requires specific equipment that many airports do not have, for one. It also doesn't understand things like noise abatement procedures. It has to be setup properly. You don't want pilots forgetting how to fly the airplane. Any of a dozen other reasons.
- scottbez1 11mo agoVery different standards - in its current form of emergency autoland it just needs to be proven to result in equal or better outcomes as a plane with no rated pilot onboard; the best case is another person that knows how to use the radio and can listen to instructions but the more likely case is a burning wreckage when the pilot is incapacitated. To always auto land it needs to be as good as a fully trained and competent pilot, a much higher standard.
- MBCook 11mo agoWe don’t have self driving cars.
- CamperBob2 11mo agoIf they didn't have to coexist with human drivers, we damned sure would. We have a couple of nuclear-powered self-driving cars on Mars.
- charcircuit 11mo agoI've confirmed with my own 2 eyes cars driving on the road without humans in them. I've also rode in a Waymo which had no driver. They definitely exist. Teslas also have self driving.
- CamperBob2 11mo agoThese people are basically Moon-landing deniers. They crop up a lot these days, sadly. I wish they'd crop up somewhere else.
- MBCook 11mo agoI define “self driving car” as level 5. Or at least 4. It should’ve able to drive itself under almost all circumstances. And well. Tesla isn’t that. Nor Ford. Nor GM. Nor anyone else. Waymo is closest, but they limit the domain and clearly still have issues. Stick a Waymo in snow on rural roads is it good to go? Doubt it.
- CamperBob2 11mo agoI define "self driving car" as anything that drives as well as I do. We won't get into what happens when I drive on a rural road covered with snow and ice... no, really, let's not go there. Moving right along...
- nottorp 11mo agoIs that self driving in the sense of fully autonomous, or it only works on whatever Waymo/Tesla have mapped to the milimeter? I've never seen any clear info about that.
- charcircuit 11mo agoIt's in the sense that there is no human driving the car.
- adrr 11mo agoi assume it has to do with success rate. If a safety system is 99% successful, that’s really good. Not so good if you’re going to use it all time.
- segmondy 11mo agodid you see the disruption to air traffic? everyone that needed to land had to go into a holding pattern. the plane was communicating to tower and was going to land since it was emergency. it was not observing other traffic, part of landing is knowing the location of other aircrafts to avoid collision. This doesn't seem to have collision detection/avoidance and space coordination with other aircrafts and entering holding pattern to delay programming yet. This is a good start.
- charcircuit 11mo agoIf they designed it to be used for every landing those issues would be resolved. The rarer you use features like this, the more disruptive they will be.
- tjohns 11mo agoThat's a really big if, especially since not all traffic has a transponder, and not all airports are towered. It would need to understand how to visually look for traffic with a camera, and understand what intentions other pilots are communicating on the radio.
- TylerE 11mo agoJust draw the rest of the owl. Easy.
- charcircuit 11mo agoEasier than self driving at least.
- cosmicgadget 11mo agoYou want your plane to still land when there's a citywide power outage.