Teslas cant really drive themselves, enter some construction area or it starts snowing and they shit the bed. Robots in general are terrible at handling dynamic situations. They work great when you're driving in an area without too much traffic, where the lines on the road are well painted and clear, and just overall ideal situations. They don't absolve the need for a human driver. The cars that are truly driverless are limited to small specific areas that avoid aforementioned issues, and covered with far more cameras all over the top of the car (expensive).BillytheKid wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:21 pm Hi all, just a question for the people with piloting experience. My friend recommended this website to find info.
I am considering flight school but I am only 18 and have concerns about the viability of being a pilot long term.
My mother's Tesla drives itself and it sounds like the big planes these days fly themselves...they even land on their own?!
Anyhow, how does 40 plus year career look?
I was thinking maybe to go into engineering instead and getting ahead of all this computer automation and artificial intelligence..seems like getting a pilot license could be a risky career outside of it being a hobby.
Thanks for the help
Planes don't fly themselves either, autopilot has always been a misnomer. It's just a different interface for pilots to command the plane what to do. Except they can tell the plane what to do well in advance. They program what the plane will do, how and when. So the plane isn't really doing much "thinking" for itself. And instead of flying with a control yoke (like a steering wheel) they push buttons to program the plane to do their bidding.
Now science does move fast. Many people are trying to automate various things including aviation. The reality is few jobs are 100 percent safe from AI or automation, it's not just pilots that should be worried. That being said, aviation technology moves much slower than other technologies. Theres lots of regulations that need to prove things to be safe before they are implemented. And even then new technologies are implemented slowly in aviation because planes last about 30 years. Meaning old technologies slowly get phased out. We don't really know yet how feasible it will be to automate aviation. Regulators and law makers are only beginning to figure that out. We'll see what happens.
My guess? The next 20 years pilots aren't in much danger. After that who knows really. It's not likely pilots will be completely replaced, I could imagine some being robots and some not. Think Star Wars
