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This is true in some organizations, but in other places the difference between "technician" and "engineer" literally is an engineering degree. I currently work at such an organizat…

> Interesting to note that computer/math degree holders don't fare far better than recent humanities and liberal arts graduates. Journalism majors perform even better. ... if you o…

He's still wrong: human error is a factor in the overwhelming majority of aviation mishaps (I don't have stats handy, but it's something in the neighborhood of 85% IIRC). This must…

> Ok, i apologize if i have misjudged your intentions, that you weren't trying to insult me. I went a little overboard there, i'm sure your friends and you are competent people des…

> It is quite clear that you are a person who likes to revel in appeal to authority arguments and casually throw off insults. Throwing a textbook, or your phd buddy's anecdotes in …

> There's quite a difference between firescout and ng's helicopter. The latter gives superhuman performance (there are videos on his homepage, andrew ng stanford). You have absolut…

> It seems like you are not well versed in ai. Not especially. I audited a course as an undergrad, and hardly remember anything from it now, but I have a layman's understanding of …

I hardly think it's pessimistic to say, "this problem is really hard, and it's going to take years to solve." I'm confident that they will be solved, which some of my peers might e…

Nothing you say addresses my broader point that there are currently too many situations in aviation where the complexity of the decisions involved exceeds our current capacity for …

It's not circular reasoning: it's a conclusion based on observation. Several groups tried to solve each problem. All of the groups that tried to solve problem A have thus far faile…

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm directly involved in the test and evaluation of one of the current attempts at "sense and avoid" technology. It is a long way from being safe for f…

> If your plane engine quits - what would a human do? This depends on a lot of factors. Some of them are things that a computer can probably be programmed to consider properly (e.g…

Occasionally it will disengage, leaving the pilot in full control. IIRC, when in full-auto it will automatically wave off (add power and climb out to go around and try again) when …

Under current tax laws they would most likely only do this in states where they already have shipping centers (Nevada and ...?) because opening such a store would create a nexus, r…

> The same is not true for many other types of goods, such as clothes. Shops are performing a useful function in letting consumers see, touch and try what they buy. I used to feel …

I never claimed that human pilots are superior to automated flight control systems in every aspect. In fact, I have stated explicitly that computers perform some tasks better and m…

> the flight environment is trivial in comparison with urban traffic. Having experienced plenty of both, I can tell you that this is utterly false.

> Why hasn't it been made mandatory that all aircrafts should have a standardized transponder ? In some parts of the world, it may be. For example, I don't know if Europe allows fo…

> it could have an inert atmosphere This would be very costly to implement, and probably very heavy. That being said, inert gases are used in places where arcing is likely (e.g. ra…

I have a master's in aeronautical engineering, and one of my major areas of study was stability and control, which is what your Segway and F-15 examples fall under. Automated fligh…

> In just a couple of years the DARPA challenge yielded cars that can drive themselves in complex urban environments. I imagine with sufficient smart people working on it, flying a…

Automated systems as they currently exist have fixed responses to fixed inputs. If an automatic system encounters a set of inputs it wasn't programmed for, it has no capacity to de…

Automation is incapable of "judgement;" automation consistently and reliably responds to inputs according to pre-defined instructions. That's why automation works really well in so…