{"id":157019,"date":"2023-02-04T13:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/fully-autonomous-passenger-planes-are-inching-closer-to-takeoff"},"modified":"2023-02-04T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T19:22:41","slug":"fully-autonomous-passenger-planes-are-inching-closer-to-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/fully-autonomous-passenger-planes-are-inching-closer-to-takeoff","title":{"rendered":"Fully autonomous passenger planes are inching closer to takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fully-autonomous-passenger-planes-are-inching-closer-to-takeoff2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s biggest commercial aircraft makers seem increasingly convinced that autonomous passenger flight is a question of when, not if.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where it stands: <\/strong>Flying today\u2019s high-tech passenger jets is often a matter of setting up and overseeing their autopilot and other automated systems \u2014 but we\u2019re not yet at a point where computer systems can entirely replace human pilots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong> \u201cAutonomy is going to come to all of the airplanes eventually,\u201d Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"told\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-31\/boeing-ceo-sees-self-flying-tech-coming-to-commercial-aircraft?leadSource=uverify%20wall&sref=yLCixKPR\" data-vars-content-id=\"6ade9625-c04e-4bd4-9a63-a225a4936298\" data-vars-headline=\"Fully autonomous passenger planes are inching closer to takeoff\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-01-31\/boeing-ceo-sees-self-flying-tech-coming-to-commercial-aircraft?leadSource=uverify%20wall&sref=yLCixKPR\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Bloomberg TV at an event this week marking the delivery of the <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"last commercial 747\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/31\/last-747-boeing\" data-vars-content-id=\"6ade9625-c04e-4bd4-9a63-a225a4936298\" data-vars-headline=\"Fully autonomous passenger planes are inching closer to takeoff\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/31\/last-747-boeing\" target=\"_self\">last commercial 747<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s biggest commercial aircraft makers seem increasingly convinced that autonomous passenger flight is a question of when, not if. Where it stands: Flying today\u2019s high-tech passenger jets is often a matter of setting up and overseeing their autopilot and other automated systems \u2014 but we\u2019re not yet at a point where computer systems can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157019","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}