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Your next pilot could be drone software

  • Written by Jeremy Straub, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
Would you be – or feel – safer if one of these people were a robot?Skycolors/Shutterstock.com

Would you get on a plane that didn’t have a human pilot in the cockpit? Half of air travelers surveyed in 2017 said they would not, even if the ticket was cheaper. Modern pilots do such a good job that almost any air accident is big news,...

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