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johnrydell

Let's just be thankful that we haven't had a major air-based catastrophe due to an outage or hacking!

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Planes with pilots in them are mostly autonomous and can avoid each other as well as the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_proximity_warning_syste...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Collision_Avoidance_Sy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collis...

Yes, mostly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev

I wouldn't get on a Russia autonomous flight for a million dollars. Between the corruption, hackey engineering, and complete disregard for safety standards, Russian accidents surprise no one. The Tu-154 accident list is long and scary. Hell, look at all the fires that broke out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-154#Incidents_and_a...

Automated, yes. Autonomous, no. The plane voices an alert, but the pilots still have to react to it.

I meant autonomous with respect to the ground.

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