Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests

Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by dwd on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:42PM (#23972061)

All the more reason to take train drivers out of the picture.

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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by kiba on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:52PM (#23972102)

Doesn't solve the problem of people using trains to commit suicide, which isn't certainly going to be solved by any amount of automation.

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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by clusterfish on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:05AM (#23972185)

So? Nobody said that it would, just that drivers won't suffer the associated ptsd.

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Re:Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, ... by dwd on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:45AM (#23973714)

Need some of the mitigations they use in Japan like calming blue lighting at the platform ends, full length barriers and gates.

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