As a professional aviator who is staring down the barrel of being replaced by unmanned systems I find it absolutely hilarious that artists are so upset that the same is happening to them.
Yeah nah they ain't going to replace real pilots with drone systems any time soon. Drones have their place, but the capacity to replace significant parts of our aviation infrastructure isn't going to be there for decades. They're inherently worse for almost any operation than a manned aircraft.
Airlines? No way in hell are people trusting a plane with no pilot, and a signal interruption killing fifty people would go poorly. Cargo? Drones of that scale just don't exist yet. And fully automated systems are far from reliable enough for either market.
Drones might add new markets, but they are far from replacing current ones, and transferring real pilots to drone pilots will be a major part of it when it happens.
I personally flew multiple fixed-wing UAS using that autopilot when it was new, and they were fully capable of autonomous takeoff and landing back in 2011.
Yeah, the thing that's going to be putting aviators out of work will be lack of demand for commercial flights because people won't be able to afford to fly places in a massive recession and with ever increasing carbon taxes. Better get licensed on a Learjet quick, those are going to be fine, our betters have places to be.
I think the first place drones will proliferate is the military.
As long as the communications to the drone are secure, it's superior to a manned fighter aircraft in every way (no physiological limitations on extreme maneuvers, no oxygen and other life support systems, no need for CSAR if shot down, etc.)
Most of those advantages are irrelevant in non-combat aircraft. Setting up all the systems to fly the plane remotely probably isn't much more cost-effective than having the pilot onboard, and automating the process is risky for the same reason AI art has malformed hands with too many or too few fingers. Computers can be programmed, but they can't identify and avoid stupid-simple mistakes like a person.
Most of the anger comes from having their worked used without permission to make commercial software under the guise that it’s being used for academic research. A lot of artist are left wing and have stupid takes. But allow me to point out that on the right we have a lot of dumb asses who are also extremely vocal Trump supporters who do more harm than good for the cause. People can support something and do so for incredibly stupid reasons and it happens on the left and right. The media jumped on it with interviewing some of the dumbest people they could find at Trump rallies. And the right did it with Obama supporters in 2008
As a professional aviator who is staring down the barrel of being replaced by unmanned systems I find it absolutely hilarious that artists are so upset that the same is happening to them.
Yeah nah they ain't going to replace real pilots with drone systems any time soon. Drones have their place, but the capacity to replace significant parts of our aviation infrastructure isn't going to be there for decades. They're inherently worse for almost any operation than a manned aircraft.
Airlines? No way in hell are people trusting a plane with no pilot, and a signal interruption killing fifty people would go poorly. Cargo? Drones of that scale just don't exist yet. And fully automated systems are far from reliable enough for either market.
Drones might add new markets, but they are far from replacing current ones, and transferring real pilots to drone pilots will be a major part of it when it happens.
Making it fly a bigger plane is comparatively trivial.
Automated drones are all quad rotors, those are slower and more stable, and they don't scale as well. Fixed wing aircraft still require human pilots.
Self driving trucks would make more sense. Infrastructurally, bringing trains back would make even more sense.
Please research outside the world of children's toys.
Fixed-wing autopilots came first, and have been available in the hobby space for well over a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArduPilot#Early_years,_2007-2012.
I personally flew multiple fixed-wing UAS using that autopilot when it was new, and they were fully capable of autonomous takeoff and landing back in 2011.
Yeah, the thing that's going to be putting aviators out of work will be lack of demand for commercial flights because people won't be able to afford to fly places in a massive recession and with ever increasing carbon taxes. Better get licensed on a Learjet quick, those are going to be fine, our betters have places to be.
they replaced pilots and air traffic controllers with diversity hires, i trust drone pilot ai more than shaniquakwa
I think the first place drones will proliferate is the military.
As long as the communications to the drone are secure, it's superior to a manned fighter aircraft in every way (no physiological limitations on extreme maneuvers, no oxygen and other life support systems, no need for CSAR if shot down, etc.)
Most of those advantages are irrelevant in non-combat aircraft. Setting up all the systems to fly the plane remotely probably isn't much more cost-effective than having the pilot onboard, and automating the process is risky for the same reason AI art has malformed hands with too many or too few fingers. Computers can be programmed, but they can't identify and avoid stupid-simple mistakes like a person.
Most of the anger comes from having their worked used without permission to make commercial software under the guise that it’s being used for academic research. A lot of artist are left wing and have stupid takes. But allow me to point out that on the right we have a lot of dumb asses who are also extremely vocal Trump supporters who do more harm than good for the cause. People can support something and do so for incredibly stupid reasons and it happens on the left and right. The media jumped on it with interviewing some of the dumbest people they could find at Trump rallies. And the right did it with Obama supporters in 2008