Robot lands a 737 by hand, on a dare from DARPA

Great

Now the good folks in 1st class can dine with the Captain, like they do on a cruise.

"Who's the first officer Captain?"

"No it's WATTS" on first.....

Nice beaver ...

Will this device be able to stuff it itself?

First congratulations to the programmers for this achievement.

Now, when I read the headline, I figured the robot was actually flying the plane by hand. It was using the autopilot. Big deal. So it spun an airspeed dial and pulled the throttles back to reverse. The plane already has an auto-land and used it to land the plane. That is where the real work is.

I will say, its going to be a real long time before the general public will take an airliner with 160 passengers without two pilots. Two pilots are their to make sure that each decision that is made is a good decision. One brain fart, or bad decision could kill a lot of people. Look at how many times planes have landed at the wrong airport. And, that's with two pilots!

Andy