Perhaps a little TOO real?

[Wing Nut]

Given the recent screw ups with the 777 software, this kind of gives me the willies...

'We' make a brain - 'It' flies a plane

[Katahu]

For some reason, the movie "Stealth" comes to mind.

[legoalex2000]

didn't i just say something like this should be invented?

Ramos

[jrpilot]

didn't i just say something like this should be invented?

Well then say goodbye to my dream and dreams of many others, o yeh and a few thousand jobs.

There is no way people would trust a "machine" to fly them around, point being what if the machine failed in flight...I can hear it now LAWSUIT.

[beefhole]

Yeah jr I always laugh at people who think machines/computers/AI/whatever will replace pilots within the next 50 years.  Maybe sometime in the next 50 centuries

[Tweek]

No fun in computers solely flying planes! And as jrpilot said, if it fails, you're buggered!

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

I've said it before...and I'll say it again...if there is one thing computers can't do is replace good old human stupidity

[GunnerMan]

Ahh computers can fly a plane. Maybe not one computer but we have a master computer with 6 duplicates. Each one with redundnant Power supplys and each one with redundant UPS'. The UPS needs to have battery life to last more than the duration of a flight. There, getting a computer to fly a plane is not the hard part we already have done that. Its getting the computer to fly the plane from point A to Point C with  a stop at Point B without hitting anything etc.

[Craig.]

Computers are wonderful. They can do things many times faster than the human brain. More precisely and for much longer periods of time than a human. But they still have one critical flaw. They are designed and programmed by humans

[flyboy 28]

They are designed and programmed by humans

My thoughts exactly.

[JBaymore]

In Japan, for a lot of the routes... computers "drive" the trains.  But there always seems to be an "operator" aboard too.

best,

...............john