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Topic	How do you feel about SELF-DRIVING CARS?
MannerSaurus 01/13/18 6:55:50 PM #135:	Kyuubi4269 posted... MannerSaurus posted... Yeah, but all take off and landing is done manually by a trained pilot, and all auto-pilot settings are set and monitored by a trained pilot. I don't mean they click an airport and it does the rest, I mean they set altitude, airspeed (adjusted for altitude change), heading, vertical speed limits for altitude change, etc. They actually need thousands of hours of experience to fly an airliner and even then they have a crew phone in to help them park. It's hardly surprising that a highly regimented fleet would be reliable. That, and a lot of commercial pilots are retired military pilots, who know how to land something 4 times the speed of sound on a moving carrier. Not all of them, mind you. But many of them are. --- Hoppe hoppe Reiter, und kein Engel steigt herab mein Herz schlagt nicht mehr weiter, NUR DER REGEN WEINT AM GRAB <cite>MannerSaurus posted [p:893990962] in How do you... [t:76194092]...</cite> <quote><cite>Kyuubi4269 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>MannerSaurus posted...</cite> <quote>Yeah, but all take off and landing is done manually by a trained pilot, and all auto-pilot settings are set and monitored by a trained pilot. I don't mean they click an airport and it does the rest, I mean they set altitude, airspeed (adjusted for altitude change), heading, vertical speed limits for altitude change, etc.</quote> They actually need thousands of hours of experience to fly an airliner and even then they have a crew phone in to help them park. It's hardly surprising that a highly regimented fleet would be reliable.</quote> That, and a lot of commercial pilots are retired military pilots, who know how to land something 4 times the speed of sound on a moving carrier. Not all of them, mind you. But many of them are. --- Hoppe hoppe Reiter, und kein Engel steigt herab mein Herz schlagt nicht mehr weiter, NUR DER REGEN WEINT AM GRAB</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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