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'Autonomous flight is closer than you think': Reliable Robotics CEO
Technology is making gains in autonomous flight. Ongoing work with Cessna 208 Caravan shows promise. (finance.yahoo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
In case he hasn't noticed, you can already "rally a plane perhaps using your phone and fly out of your local municipal airport and take this to any place in the country that you want to go." The only difference is that as for now, there is pilot(s) in the aircraft.
Garmin has solved some of the problems he said Reliable Robotics was solving and is putting the solutions in the actual production aircraft: https://discover.garmin.com/en-US/autonomi/
Hey I have a whiz bang Garmin GPS....that locks up from time to time.
And it's FAA approved, isn't it?
I'd take tele-operated assistance to landings instead, where a set of local specialists at the airport do the main work of landing the aircraft through something very like a simulator connected to sensors on the airplane, as long as there's still a real pilot riding shotgun in the plane, the telepilots would all be right next to each other to coordinate things and would be familiar with conditions as they would be doing them several times that day and could forsee what could crop up. It would also allow some otherwise disabled pilots to keep working, and they would be fully refreshed and awake.
The first thing that I thought of was the movie 'I, Robot', where the robot tells Will Smith's character 'You are about to experience an accident'. Yeah, I'll pass...