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I meant something in-vehicle for ground vehicles, like an extremely simple extrapolation of current velocity and the extremely predictable trajectory of a plane, instead of depending on going back and forth over radio asking a very busy fallible human, but sure

even my cheap car has geofencing and automatic braking

I've worked on avionics professionally and I haven't crashed any of my planes yet...

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“These lights … turn red in response to traffic, providing direct, immediate alerts without the need for input from controllers”.

It will be interesting to see what the report says. Did the light system not function? Did they override it? Do they ignore it consistently?

> geofencing and automatic braking

I’m not at all sure I want emergency vehicles to be blocked like this. And if they can override then it’s no different. They didn’t roll onto the runway on accident.

> I've worked on avionics professionally and I haven't crashed any of my planes yet...

Is this relevant somehow?

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