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by silvestrov 1806 days ago
> string of automated glider ports

There is a small precedent here: the space shuttle flew almost 100% by computers.

There was a small involvement of the pilots when landing and some change of software due to small RAM size in the computers.

I could imagine "Fully-Self-Flying planes" would start out with cargo planes between areas with low population.