How will a computer detect a small animal on the runway, which calls for a go around? How will a computer sense an impending ground excursion with another airplane? There are some things you need human eyes for, so pilot-less passenger airplanes won't be happening for a LOOONG time. The general public wouldn't fly on a computer-flown-only airplane.
Besides, anyone who praises pilot-less passenger aircraft.... all I have to do is show them the video of that (Air France?) A320 that is automated and coming into land and runs straight into the trees. Supposedly, that landing was all computerized (even with pilots in the cockpit, but I don't think they could do much).
That shuts them up pretty well, and I win the argument.
Besides, anyone who praises pilot-less passenger aircraft.... all I have to do is show them the video of that (Air France?) A320 that is automated and coming into land and runs straight into the trees. Supposedly, that landing was all computerized (even with pilots in the cockpit, but I don't think they could do much).
That shuts them up pretty well, and I win the argument.