Hi everybody.
Pware, you have very much hit the core of the role of artificial intelligence in transport debate with your above example and statement. As we have witnessed throughout the world and in particular here in Europe in recent months, almost any powered vehicle can be used as a weapon to terrible effect or human error can create an unwanted man made catastrophe. In either of the foregoing the larger the vehicle the more devastating can be the outcome.
Anyone who has seen the film "Sully" in which the flight crew make an emergency landing in New York's Hudson River after US Airways Flight 1549 strikes a flock of geese will perhaps relies that no computer could have carried out what those pilots did. The flight crew had less than two minutes but in that time they evaluate the situation, throw the flight plan and aircraft manual "out the window" and then land on the river saving all on board.
Of course there is the opposite side as was so terribly witnessed on 9/11 when aircraft in total human control were used to such catostrofic affect. Aircraft thankfully have become much more difficult to commandeer in recent times. However, other vehicles have now become weapons for terror attacks and as ever susceptible to a genuine human error also causing any number of incidents.
Certainly in the European road haulage industry the thinking is with artificial intelligence as the way forward in terms of safety but we have a long way to go in terms of needing changes to legislation. There is also the matter of the large number of small haulers that give such great service but would not survive the radical changes that such legislation will bring about. The large UK and European rail industries are also now coming face to face with the many dilemmas that artificial intelligence will bring to that system of transport and the changes that will be needed to accommodate such systems.
Driverless vehicles especially in regard to road will i feel change the way we all think in terms of travel and also in regards to work availability and what we engage in while carrying out that employment.
Bill
The two main aircraft manufacturers, Boeing-McDonald-Douglas and Airbus, have taken very different approaches to this. Essentially, with Boeing the pilot is still in command but the computer is the supervisor while with Airbus the computer is in command with the pilot as a supervisor. Both approaches have been shown to have their advantages and disadvantages - and the latter can be with fatal consequences.
Pware, you have very much hit the core of the role of artificial intelligence in transport debate with your above example and statement. As we have witnessed throughout the world and in particular here in Europe in recent months, almost any powered vehicle can be used as a weapon to terrible effect or human error can create an unwanted man made catastrophe. In either of the foregoing the larger the vehicle the more devastating can be the outcome.
Anyone who has seen the film "Sully" in which the flight crew make an emergency landing in New York's Hudson River after US Airways Flight 1549 strikes a flock of geese will perhaps relies that no computer could have carried out what those pilots did. The flight crew had less than two minutes but in that time they evaluate the situation, throw the flight plan and aircraft manual "out the window" and then land on the river saving all on board.
Of course there is the opposite side as was so terribly witnessed on 9/11 when aircraft in total human control were used to such catostrofic affect. Aircraft thankfully have become much more difficult to commandeer in recent times. However, other vehicles have now become weapons for terror attacks and as ever susceptible to a genuine human error also causing any number of incidents.
Certainly in the European road haulage industry the thinking is with artificial intelligence as the way forward in terms of safety but we have a long way to go in terms of needing changes to legislation. There is also the matter of the large number of small haulers that give such great service but would not survive the radical changes that such legislation will bring about. The large UK and European rail industries are also now coming face to face with the many dilemmas that artificial intelligence will bring to that system of transport and the changes that will be needed to accommodate such systems.
Driverless vehicles especially in regard to road will i feel change the way we all think in terms of travel and also in regards to work availability and what we engage in while carrying out that employment.
Bill
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