Yall seem to get quite emotional about this topic. Which proves why it is such a good idea. The other article today talks about a 2 captains on an ATR crashing a perfectly good airplane and 71 pax. How many crashes are pilot induced ? Runway incursion at JFK could have been a bad one. Look in the mirror: you are human. The military have been flying all kinds of unmanned craft for years now, so they will know a thing or 2 about it. Also : unions strongly object single-pilot ops, so voila : you reap what you sow. Imho FAA and pilots have brought this upon ourselves through lack of vision and innovation. I repeat : my drone has better avionics than many an airliner and most of the GA fleet. The question is not : will this be perfect ? Rather : will it be better than we have today ? Before you answer : go over all of last years crashes and think about all those poor souls killed by their pilots.