Robotic Nation Evidence: Three more reasons pilots will be replaced by robots

7.08.2004

Three more reasons pilots will be replaced by robots

Robotic Nation predicts that pilots will be replaced by robots on commerical flights by 2015. However, it may be sooner than that...

Air crews look at radiation risk from flying: "The union for pilots at American Airlines is trying to increase awareness among air crews that they are being exposed to enough cosmic radiation to fall into a U.S. government regulated category of radiation workers." Why worry about cosmic radiation exposure for human pilots when you can replace those pilots with robots?
America West Pilots Charged With Being Drunk In Cockpit: "The pilots were videotaped drinking beer for hours at a sports bar until seven hours before the flight. Blood-alcohol results for Cloyd and Hughes were above the state drunkenness standard of 0.08 but below the federal criminal standard of 0.10." Why worry about human pilots getting drunk when you can replace them with robots?
Delta pilots await contract talks: "Pilots [at Delta] have offered pay cuts of 13.5 percent and other work rule changes, while the company has said it must reduce the value of the pilot contract by 45 percent, including pay cuts of 34.5 percent and other contract changes." That's a pretty big pay cut, especially when you consider that the former CEO of Delta left in November with a $16 million pension in his pocket. Why not pay the executives even more by replacing all the human pilots with robots?

If a robot can do the job, human beings are out the door. Pilots, unfortunately, are about to see their jobs vanish.

What will pilots do once they are fired? See also this post.

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Comments:

Not true, maybe in 50 years but when autopilot still turns off in turbulence and instrument errors still happen it will take time plus it will cost 450 billion to replace visual runways with ILS system. And pilots still have to turn off autopilot at 500 ft and land manually. I also don't think people would want to fly in a plane with a computer flying, it has ended bad in the past (air France robot a320 disaster).
- Cpt Rohan Shitole
Jet Airways. 777 -300er

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:22 AM, May 12, 2009

"Air crews look at radiation risk from flying" - Really? Are they going to replace the air hostesses with robots too? And if the radiation is so bad, why don't they replace the passengers with robots while they're at it?

"Pilots Charged With Being Drunk In Cockpit" - A drunken pilot or a machine pilot built by the lowest bidder and running an operating system created by Microsoft... hmmm, I think I'll take my chances with the former.

"Delta pilots await contract talks" - They'll have to cut their spending a lot more if they are going to foot the bloated bills delivered to them by the fatcat executives that sell the robot pilots anyway, so I don't see a win here, either.

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:10 PM, January 07, 2012

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Three more reasons pilots will be replaced by robots

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