{"id":214802,"date":"2017-06-09T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=214802"},"modified":"2017-06-09T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T10:06:55","slug":"boeing-looking-into-passenger-planes-without-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/214802-boeing-looking-into-passenger-planes-without-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"Boeing looking into passenger planes without pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has started researching commercial-passenger jets which\u00a0will fly without pilots, according to a report by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/boeing-studies-planes-without-pilots-plans-experiments-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Seattle Times<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the &#8220;basic building blocks of the technology are clearly available&#8221; during a briefing at the Paris Air Show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s going to be a transition from the requirement to have a skilled aviator operate the airplane to having a system that operates the vehicle autonomously, if we can do that with the same level of safety,\u201d said Boeing.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing said the autonomous system must\u00a0be able to handle emergency situations, like a bird strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not smart enough to preprogram all those things. The machine has to be capable of making the same set of decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The system is set to be tested in a plane &#8211; without passengers &#8211; in 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/214470-ubereats-partners-with-kfc-for-deliveries.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">UberEATS partners with KFC for deliveries<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has started researching commercial-passenger jets which will fly without pilots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":135378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8789],"class_list":["post-214802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-boeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214804,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214802\/revisions\/214804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}