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NASA Wants You To Fly The Highway In The Sky

Posted by timothy on from the wonder-if-ntsb-knows-about-this dept.

rakerman writes "NASA is working on a program called SATS, the Small Aircraft Transportation System, which is designed to improve the automation and safety of small aircraft travel to the point where you could fly the 'highway in the sky' as easily as you drive your car." I'm ready -- when is the Moller Skycar?

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  1. Re:More to it than that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    -2 Belittling Pongy. PongyPongyPongyPongy. Lets all bow down to the great pilot. Sheesh, what a butthead. Lord your pilotness over someone else, huh. I aint impressed.

  2. Re:History Repeating.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    As a pilot, I will admit that this might sound elitist; but I don't want the untrained masses up there with me.

    What happens when the alternator quits and all of that fancy electronic wizardry goes kaput. Even as stable as the linux/unix machines I work with are, they occasionally break. What is the average cell phone talking, hair combing, makeup applying, newspaper reading idiot going to do when they actually have to fly the damned thing?

    If you want to make it easier, that's great; but I don't think you should let people fly them without thorough training on how to fly it manually. No matter how easy it is when everything's working, it won't be any easier when everything quits.