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Merlin Labs wants to fill the sky with pilotless planes carrying cargo and passengers
Autonomous flight startup Merlin Labs is coming out of stealth mode to announce that it’s raised $25 million in funding from Google Ventures and First Round Capital. The company has also struck a deal with aviation services contractor Dynamic Aviation to begin putting its pilotless plane technology into commercial operation. (www.theverge.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
As safe as tesla cars with brain dead drivers.
The scary thing is that this Matt George really doesn't understand that the FAA's ground radar does NOT see everything in the air throughout the US. Without cooperative aircraft transponders the basic FAA search radar is a pretty poor tracker of aircraft since the "skin paint" is not a given and has some serious range and altitude limitations with plenty of holes. In addition, not every aircraft is required to have a transponder. You can still hit something you didn't "see".
Yah a computer does not care if it goes down in flames. I'll never fly on one even for free.
Uh, who are they going to get to fly in these things??? We've got some idiot running around the Bay Area in the back seat of a Tesla recently... and I don't want to be on the same highway with him... at 38,000 feet? NO WAY!
This is great! Read the article about the psycho Southwest patron that punched the flight attendant. Imagine trying to tell the "autonomous captain" to call ahead for the police or to land immediately? The FAA won't let you fly a drone but the fact that they're even considering having nobody in the cockpit flying scares the crap out of me!
Imagine the new preflight safety message : In the event of a software failure, we will request any passenger with flight training to take command ....while the remaining passengers brace for a sudden impact....