Would You Trust Your Life to a Robot? Pilotless Planes Are on the Horizon
THE CAPTAIN WILL NOT SEE YOU
2017 looked like the safest year ever but a near-catastrophe suggests that the time is fast coming when robots will be a safer pair of hands in the cockpit.
Just before midnight on July 7 last year Air Canada Flight 759, an Airbus A320 carrying 135 passengers and five crew, was on final approach to San Francisco International Airport on a flight from Toronto.
