Airbus' self-flying plane just completed successful taxi, take-off, and landing tests, opening the door for fully autonomous flight

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Fully automated flight is way simpler than fully automated cars; that we're just getting this now shows how the car automation problem isn't going to be solved, at least not anytime soon.

Most people who think it will have never been outside of a metro area.

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Car semi-automation can actually work, as long as there is good network coverage - have a single human operator center (say, 50 operators) per X cars (for example 10,000), who can take control of the vehicle once it us "unsure" of the road. This would be a subscription based service, of course.
The fallback to this would be the cars slowing down, and eventually stopping, if the drivers do not take manual control.