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Originally Posted by Skybird
I meant I wiuld not sit in a civilian plane even when drones are just navigating in the area even with no combat going on. When there is a malfunction in that damn thing, a software bug, whatever, there is nobody aboard to keep things under control. The operator does not sit at the end of a wire - he sits on the other side of a radiowave connection, or whatever they use for controlling it. With reliability of the things being like it currently is, I do not like so sit like a lame duck, without options if the thing goes into blind or amok mode.
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A software failure on a manned aircraft is just a deadly. It doesn't matter if the connection between the ailerons (or whatever) is by fiber optic wire or by radio wave if the "Brain" interpreting the pilots actions on the stick fails the aircraft is doomed.
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They already have a deletion feature for the sensible software and data aboard. Problem is - again, that feature still does not work reliably.
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I was thinking more of the hardware, less if fall in to the wrong hands... again...
