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Re:Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fi... by HoldOnAMinute on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:27PM (#47492503)
I worked in aviation in the late 1990s and automating ATC is all they could talk about. So, that's almost 30 years of talking and no action.
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Re:Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fi... by CamperBob2 on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:33PM (#47492574)
That's because it's a political problem, and not a technical problem. It could have been done then, and it can be done now.

Just curious: how many people in this thread know what SAGE was? A $5 Arduino has more computing power than the whole SAGE network. This isn't 1958, so we don't need the 'Semi' part of 'Semi-Automatic Ground Environment' anymore.

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