Europe Urges Automation, FAA Stresses Stick And Rudder - AVweb

Kids are building robots with increasing capability. Robot assisted surgeries and diagnosis are reported in numbers that are no longer ‘amazing’. Human pilots have made and continue to make frequent errors on flights – many of which result in accidents. Technology for remote operations and command of very large and capable drones is already in daily use. Gotta face it. Pilots are likely already obsolete, and certainly be the railroad’s firemen on the flight deck soon… if not already unneeded cogs.