On Jun 22, 8:10*pm, Nomen Nescio wrote:
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From: Le Chaud Lapin

Many of these interested parties are experienced pilots themselves,
and some of them are highly-respected aeronautical designers who
understand many of the technical problems presented in this thread,
yet they still persist.

Why then, in this group, is there such a resistance to a PAV?

2) Most of us are aware that, eventually, systems will fail and a human
will live or die because of his ability to handle the situation without a machine
doing the "thinking".

3) We can imagine what it would be like if the average driver took to the skies.

These same statements could have been applied to automobiles at the
turn of the century, but eventually, average drivers were allowed
drive.

Certainly you do not expect the sky to remain off-limits to average
drivers forever. It is very likely, eventually, that something will
have changed to allow them into the sky.

What will have changed?

Perhaps we underestimate the ability of humans to adapt to new types
of machines.

-Le Chaud Lapin-