Docklands light railway is driverless?Clinton Huxley wrote:The public aint ready for pilotless airliners, I reckon. London Underground trains can run automatically but they don't, for pretty much the same reason.
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The pilots do the take off, landing and anything tricky en route. The autopilot does the easy coasting along bit.Gawd wrote:They do fly themselves. The flight computer can do everything. The pilots can sleep all the way through if they wanted, which I'm sure many do. Don't know why you still have 2 or 3 overly paid "pilots" on every plane, they are obsolete.Clinton Huxley wrote:These things should be able to fly themselves by now
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There are such systems around, right enough. There's a driverless train at Basel airport. Attitudes are changing to such thingsMrJonno wrote:Docklands light railway is driverless?Clinton Huxley wrote:The public aint ready for pilotless airliners, I reckon. London Underground trains can run automatically but they don't, for pretty much the same reason.
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Yes, because computers never, ever fuck up.Gawd wrote:They do fly themselves. The flight computer can do everything. The pilots can sleep all the way through if they wanted, which I'm sure many do. Don't know why you still have 2 or 3 overly paid "pilots" on every plane, they are obsolete.Clinton Huxley wrote:These things should be able to fly themselves by now
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devogue wrote:Yes, because computers never, ever fuck up.Gawd wrote:They do fly themselves. The flight computer can do everything. The pilots can sleep all the way through if they wanted, which I'm sure many do. Don't know why you still have 2 or 3 overly paid "pilots" on every plane, they are obsolete.Clinton Huxley wrote:These things should be able to fly themselves by now
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That's just what happened on the Rio-Paris flight...
and I'm dreading the fact that the metro line by my home is being shifted to automated systems, with trains that don't even have a place for the driver.
The other line that's like that works like a charm, but the day it fucks up, I don't wanna guess how long it will take to fix.
and I'm dreading the fact that the metro line by my home is being shifted to automated systems, with trains that don't even have a place for the driver.
The other line that's like that works like a charm, but the day it fucks up, I don't wanna guess how long it will take to fix.
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Oh, good. Someone with total faith in American technology.Gawd wrote:They do fly themselves. The flight computer can do everything. The pilots can sleep all the way through if they wanted, which I'm sure many do. Don't know why you still have 2 or 3 overly paid "pilots" on every plane, they are obsolete.Clinton Huxley wrote:These things should be able to fly themselves by now
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Hope the Dreamliner is running Windows Vista in the cockpit....
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In case something goes wrong, I guess, like flocks of geese requiring planes to land in the Hudson River, and whatnot.Gawd wrote:They do fly themselves. The flight computer can do everything. The pilots can sleep all the way through if they wanted, which I'm sure many do. Don't know why you still have 2 or 3 overly paid "pilots" on every plane, they are obsolete.Clinton Huxley wrote:These things should be able to fly themselves by now
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If a plane had no cockpit, it would be impossible to hijack it....unless you had an app on your iPhone I suppose.
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It wouldn't be that hard...Clinton Huxley wrote:If a plane had no cockpit, it would be impossible to hijack it....unless you had an app on your iPhone I suppose.
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...that's what she said...Gawdzilla wrote:It wouldn't be that hard...Clinton Huxley wrote:If a plane had no cockpit, it would be impossible to hijack it....unless you had an app on your iPhone I suppose.
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She made it go soft.Coito ergo sum wrote:...that's what she said...Gawdzilla wrote:It wouldn't be that hard...Clinton Huxley wrote:If a plane had no cockpit, it would be impossible to hijack it....unless you had an app on your iPhone I suppose.
Anyway, you just put a bomb onboard the plane, then have a second party communicate with the airline. Tell them "The plane goes HERE or it goes BOOM. You pick."
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What if the cockpit and general plane had different entry doors?Gawdzilla wrote:It wouldn't be that hard...Clinton Huxley wrote:If a plane had no cockpit, it would be impossible to hijack it....unless you had an app on your iPhone I suppose.
You could totally seal it off from the rest of the plane.
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To the contrary, it was the humans who caused the crash:Svartalf wrote:That's just what happened on the Rio-Paris flight...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/ ... KV20110729
Granted they were out of practice because they used the computers so much.
Pappa, while it's true that autopilots of 30 years ago could only handle the easy parts, today's autopilots can do takeoffs and landings just fine.
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