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Driverless Cars
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- No - 191 votes
- 68%
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- 32%
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Aircraft can and do , take off cruise to the destination and land totally automatically. There still have to be 2 human pilots but they are virtually redundant 95% of the time. There are driver-less trains on the DLR ( and many other places) and they are far safer than the trains with drivers. There are advanced studies to replace drivers with computer control on the London Underground, the only reason the drivers still have jobs is union resistance to the 1,000s of redundancies that will result. Ships again are normally on 'auto control' once out of the busiest shipping lanes.
Cambridge has buses that are self guided on the guided bus lanes, it was quite worrying the first time I was on one, the driver just folds his / her arms , sits back and lets the bus steer itself .
Cambridge has buses that are self guided on the guided bus lanes, it was quite worrying the first time I was on one, the driver just folds his / her arms , sits back and lets the bus steer itself .
can I ask this? would those who say they would be happy in a driverless car travel in a pilotless plane?
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Moot point IMHO. Driverless cars would in all probability(private vehicles at least) have an override facility, whereby the occupants could take control of their own vehicle, should they feel the need to do so.
Commercial aircraft would in all probability have a pilot overseeing matters, maybe not on the flight deck throughout but certainly at hand, as they pretty much are nowadays anyway as a result of autopilot.
Furthermore, aircraft are subject to far greater extremes than private vehicles and thus would need a certain degree of 'human factor'.
I would guesstimate though that in the next 25 years we'll be well on the way to driverless cars/buses.
Watch Top Gear from 22 minutes onwards:
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Moot point IMHO. Driverless cars would in all probability(private vehicles at least) have an override facility, whereby the occupants could take control of their own vehicle, should they feel the need to do so.
Commercial aircraft would in all probability have a pilot overseeing matters, maybe not on the flight deck throughout but certainly at hand, as they pretty much are nowadays anyway as a result of autopilot.
Furthermore, aircraft are subject to far greater extremes than private vehicles and thus would need a certain degree of 'human factor'.
I would guesstimate though that in the next 25 years we'll be well on the way to driverless cars/buses.
Watch Top Gear from 22 minutes onwards:
TWR in that case there was an emergency they had 100% engine failure so the pilot took control, this will always be the case in emergency but in a normal flight everything is often automatic. It is almost unknown now for a commercial flight to be flown the entire trip by a human pilot. Even if the human does the take off and landing the rest of the trip is normally auto pilot.