'I'm HAL; I'll Be Your Pilot'. Commercial airliners run by computer, without a flight crew? It's neither lunacy nor fantasy, according to airplane designers. In fact, practical demonstrations in military aircraft show that it's feasible right now. [Wired News]
I would love to see the computer fly a C-172 at Palo Alto (PAO) on a weekend when you decend into the pattern and the tower tells you to "follow the King Air on a 4 mile final at 1,600 feet, extend downwind to Moffet, you are #6, clear to land....
4:22:20 PM 
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