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Originally Posted by underscore
Important question: What portion of human-error incidents are due to error by the pilot? Because a pilotless aircraft does nothing to fix errors caused by anyone other than pilots. Secondly, how many more non-pilot error incidents would end in fatalities without skilled pilots to correct them? I can think of several major aircraft incidents that would have been much more likely to end fatally, or would have ended fatally more quickly, had a human pilot not been at the controls.
They already exist, there's been one in Penticton for at least the last 20 years.
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There have been many planes that have failed mechanically that the pilots have prevented them from crashing. Without the pilot they would have gone down.
Human error, with planes anyway, is not only just on the part of the pilot. The same could be said for the automated car. It requires maintenance to keep running, if its done improperly or at a low budget shop that cuts corners you could have a failure resulting in a crash.