> It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London

I’ve only been to London once, for work. One of the coolest things I did when I was there was to take a black London cab from the financial district to Heathrow when I was leaving. It was probably a 30 minute drive. The driver had been driving a cab since 1982. He told me all about the requirements and training for being a cab driver and a bunch of other things that I did not know (for example, they own the cars, and they can choose when they work). He was also a wealth of information about London, as you can imagine, and pointed out lots of interesting things as we drove.

It was probably a $50 cab ride, but worth every penny (even though it wasn’t my money since it was a work trip).

I've only taken a London cab once. The bastard got lost!

> It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London

That doesn't apply to private hire vehicle drivers afaik.

Or Uber drivers in London

(In case you're not aware) It's the same thing. Uber operates in London as private hire operator, so their drivers are mini cab drivers. Same rules (now: basic English and rules test, yearly car inspections, MOT every 6 months, cars must have TFL badges, etc).

... who are obviously not taxi drivers, so ... your point?

Private hire is technically not a taxi. They can't pick someone up at a rank or on the street.

There are detailed step-by-step instruction cards (task cards) for every single maintenance operation on an airplane. Nobody is reinventing the wheel, they’re carefully following predetermined procedures. Someone has to figure out which maintenance procedures need to happen, but the work itself is laid out for you step by step.

Cool! I did not know that.

Augmented reality glasses, coupled with an AI that can interpret vision would seem to be useful here then.

This seems like a fast-track to making airline mechanics a minimum-wage, any-guy-off-the-street kind of job, which is not who I want touching the plane I'm flying in.

There needs to be SOME accountability. "Oh, but my glasses told me to unscrew this bolt, I was just following orders." is not how I want the future to be.

I’ve had the same thought re: AR glasses with a HUD for mechanics/construction workers, there are a lot of cool possibilities.

Yeah ... then you can have basically anyone off the street do the job. A great opportunity to pay your jumbo jet mechanics less than taxi drivers.

I guess it would explain those small insignificant issues, however:

https://viewfromthewing.com/ntsb-report-confirms-the-unravel...

We worked on a proof of concept using HoloLens for an engine teardown team at a trucking OEM. Ran into issues around network, security, the Hololens itself and a general disinterest from the teardown team but there's a lot of room to run in this space. It was a fun, if frustrating, project.