{"id":13876,"date":"2015-03-29T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:00:38","slug":"its-time-for-robot-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/its-time-for-robot-pilots","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time For Robot Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/author\/JasonKoebler\">Jason Koebler<\/a> \u2014 MotherBoard<\/h3>\n<p><br \/> It\u2019s increasingly looking like the plane that crashed Monday in France, killing 150 people, went down because one of the pilots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-32063587\" target=\"_blank\">\u200bturned off the autopilot and intentionally crashed it into the ground<\/a>. Why are we still letting humans fly passenger planes?<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is, we\u2019re not really. It\u2019s no secret that planes are already highly automated, and, with technology that\u2019s available today (but that isn\u2019t installed on the Airbus A320 operated by Germanwings that crashed), it would have been possible for someone in a ground station somewhere to have wrested control of the plane from those on board and reestablished autopilot (or to have piloted the plane from the ground)<a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/its-time-for-robot-pilots-germanwings-crash\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Koebler \u2014 MotherBoard It\u2019s increasingly looking like the plane that crashed Monday in France, killing 150 people, went down because one of the pilots \u200bturned off the autopilot and intentionally crashed it into the ground. Why are we still letting humans fly passenger planes? The short answer is, we\u2019re not really. It\u2019s no secret [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1470,37,6,1492,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-human-trajectories","category-robotics-ai","category-security","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64785,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions\/64785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}