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Robot lands a 737 by hand, on a dare from DARPA
Building a bot for the co-pilot's seat may be cheaper than adding automation software (www.theregister.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
All very interesting until the one armed metal guy goes missed due traffic on the runway, loses the left engine and with no feet has to decide.what to do first .....do I increase power/raise the flaps then the gear/trim the aircraft/follow missed app procedures/ “talk to someone”/ oh, and the guy in the left seat, he is well, incapacitated. LOL. I’m all for automation but usually there are weather as well as functional limitations to its ability.
This was not a robot landing a 737 by hand.
It was a robot manipulating a 737's autopilot and the 737 performed an auto-land.
It was a robot manipulating a 737's autopilot and the 737 performed an auto-land.
Very true and may I say that he did a very bad job!
And if a robot had piloted Flight 232 in '89, probably all passengers would have died before they even reached Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa.
I'm no fan of robots, but to keep the ifs in perspective, if a robot had been flying in airline accidents that were pilot error, the accident may not have happened.
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