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-- interesting - total opposite for me - #1 cause of commercial aircraft accidents is pilot error - by a long shot - personally - looking forward to the day humans are not involved in flying an aircraft --

https://nci.edu/2021/06/08/the-most-common-causes-of-aviatio...

https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oam...

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Main reason pilot error is #1 cause is that hardware problems can be fixed once and for all, while pilots take care of all the exceptions.

Also, doing a CFIT while flying on autopilot is still a pilot error, because they gave the autopilot's orders.

-- https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oam... - page 6 tru 16 are interesting --

After pilots are eliminated, the #1 cause of accidents will be autopilot error.

-- it will likely still be a human factor - maintenance/mechanical is the second cause after pilot error --

Think it through, get rid of human engineers designing those aircraft, get rid of human mechanics and engineers maintaining them, human pilots flying them and human managers driving all of that. While we are at it, get rid of human passengers, without those there won't be any dead people neither if the machines get it wrong.

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And get rid of the surface population of earth what we're at it so the flying robo-bombs don't fall on anyone.

Better to have the final say come from someone at the controls rather than a desk in Silicon Valley. Humans aren't going anywhere.

We should really just petition the FAA to eliminate all pilots entirely right now: it'll eliminate the #1 cause of commercial aircraft accidents.

Maybe this will be fine when the technology is there, but it's very obvious that doing this change today -- especially when it's being lobbied to be applied to cargo planes first (historically much older former passenger planes w/o modern creature comforts) -- is going only going to increase deaths by pilot error.

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