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Message: <blockquote data-quote="richardr" data-source="post: 334891" data-attributes="member: 4277"><p>A few points in response to [USER=65]@kevgermany[/USER]  's post:</p><p>1. In the days when I followed aviation technology closely "it all goes through the computers to get the required actions to the control surfaces" was the Airbus philosophy. Then, Boeing's approach was different: although they adopted full authority digital engine control, the pilot operated the major flight controls - ailerons, elevators and rudder - directly without computer input except when on autopilot. Has that changed? (Incidentally, the boss of a certain budget airline is said to have refused to have autopilots in his fleet of new Boeing 737s. "Why should I buy autopilots when I pay my pilots small fortunes to do the job" was his view.)</p><p>2. Nowadays the pilot is there just in case something goes wrong. A good example of this a few years ago was when an airliner suffered birdstrikes in both engines and had to ditch in the Hudson river. The pilot did his job so well that no-one was hurt. This was a well-publicised incident but there are many more that are less dramatic which go unnoticed by the general public.</p><p>3. All the traffic on railways and in controlled airspace is carefully routed to avoid collisions. Even if we get to the point of road traffic being totally computer-controlled, there will still be uncontrolled traffic in the form of pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders etc. Perhaps they are hazards comparable with the birdstrike over the Hudson river, except that while no-one mourned the fate of the Canada geese which I assume were killed, hitting humans is a different issue.</p><p>I think that driverless motoring is a much greater challenge than airways and railways, but nowadays it is foolish to say "never" in matters of technological progress.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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