Not to be a philistine about new technology: but somehow I think this would make people in the air and in the ground less safe.
It's probably like having a parachute on the plane: just a great marketing sales point.
It's probably like having a parachute on the plane: just a great marketing sales point.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539144
There are already plenty of airplanes that have the ability to land themselves under specific conditions. There's no whole-new technology here. Even if it was brand new, I'm not sure how that would be less safe.
Once pilots were properly trained, the parachutes started saving lives. It was the same story when ejector seats were introduced.
The emergency autoland is not intended to be used by the pilot, it is for activation by a passenger in single pilot aircraft when the pilot is incapacitated. So their is almost nothing to train. Pilots just need to add it to the passenger briefing.
Net safety will probably increase because most people will never have that use case though.