People are going to be understandably resistant to unmanned passenger flights. That being said, if this type of technology is cheap enough and has an acceptable degree of proven safety, companies like UPS and FedEx will not wait long to convert all their cargo flight. Pilots are an expensive resource, and with the unions, I doubt passenger airlines will wait long to jump on the bandwagon.
I just want to emphasize that scientists and engineers are essential to a colossal number of companies. Money that ExxonMobile contributes to education not only benefits them by hopefully raising a new generation of petroleum engineers, but it also helps any number of smaller start up companies that depend on a generation of Americans with a strong math and science background. Many of these companies can not afford to make massive donations to this end, in fact many of these companies do not even exist yet, but they will reap the benefits none the less.
While there may be political motives involved in such donations, you can only carry that argument so far. I work for a company that has a multi-million dollar initiative to get middle school students energized about math and ensure a future crop of engineers. This is a large defense contractor, so if we really wanted to brain wash the youth of America, we would do it through the history and political science classes, not through math.
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People are going to be understandably resistant to unmanned passenger flights. That being said, if this type of technology is cheap enough and has an acceptable degree of proven safety, companies like UPS and FedEx will not wait long to convert all their cargo flight. Pilots are an expensive resource, and with the unions, I doubt passenger airlines will wait long to jump on the bandwagon.
While there may be political motives involved in such donations, you can only carry that argument so far. I work for a company that has a multi-million dollar initiative to get middle school students energized about math and ensure a future crop of engineers. This is a large defense contractor, so if we really wanted to brain wash the youth of America, we would do it through the history and political science classes, not through math.