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Re:FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for... by outworlder on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:09PM (#24336792)
> the single sensor

And this is the problem. We wouldn't have autonomous aircraft without sensor redundancies. Even pilots have multiple redundant instruments.

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Re:FedEx feeder plane takes flight without pilot in test for... by nradov on Monday August 31, 2020 @08:09PM (#24337186)
Having multiple instances of the same type of sensor doesn't necessary help a lot because they tend to have highly correlated failure modes. A human pilot contains entirely different sensor hardware which, although unreliable, tends to fail in different ways.
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