re: #307 Gus

Cops. Used to be two per patrol car. Airliner. Used to have a pilot, co-pilot, navigator and flight engineer. Now you get the first two. Some day we might be looking at unmanned flight for airliners.

Cops are still sometimes two to a car, and the decision on 1 or two is more about budgets and manpower priorities than automation.

As for airliners, I doubt they’ll be automated in my lifetime. UAVs still have a far higher loss rate than manned aircraft, and automating passenger aircraft will not happen till that changes.