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Xwing Autonomous Airplane: My First REAL Flight was Exciting!
Startup Xwing is developing an autonomous plane it hopes to put into service by 2025. CNET’s Andy Altman took a ride in Xwing’s experimental aircraft. CHAPTERS 00:00 Xwing’s Experimental Self-Flying Plane 1:10 Autonomous Takeoff 2:18 Autopilot Today 3:02 How Superpilot Works 5:23 The History of Xwing 6:08 The Future of Autonomous Cargo Flights 8:16 Autonomous…
Witness101
October 2, 2022 at 12:03 pm
It looks like a cheap piece of crap. Making an airplane autonomous is not impressive. Maybe they could call it something clever like autopilot. Maybe they’ll make small versions one day and call them drones.
Jay White
October 2, 2022 at 12:15 pm
That’s absolutely ridiculous I wouldn’t trust it with no Pilot the cockpit
J.C. Schutte
October 2, 2022 at 12:19 pm
I will eventually first want to meet the programmer of this flight system prior go on such an a.c. I got a very good skill or gift to recognise evil intensions or attitudes in a person. From there i will know if the program is trustworthy or not.
Paul Weder
October 2, 2022 at 1:07 pm
Would you ever trust in simple algorithms? Would you lay your life in the hands of algorithms? How many times did a system in your hands not start up correctly. If it is about cargo, yes. But not if it is about human transportation. There should be a lot of additional safety measures of control algorithms, which are not supplied today. If a routine does not work properly the aircraft will crash. Something like this is not ripe for the market yet, although it may look pretty good and cool.
Bruce Hewat
October 2, 2022 at 12:20 pm
Commercial airliners take off and land themselves all the time. Depending on the airport they can taxi themselves as well, and that’s not new. That’s the computer following a programmed route though, not fully autonomous, they don’t really make decisions.
David S
October 2, 2022 at 12:26 pm
But will it be capable of destroying a death star?
Ted Perez
October 2, 2022 at 12:32 pm
Back in 2015, I posted: somewhere in the not too distant future, are flight centers, where “pilots” monitor the progress of their assigned flights, which sometimes haul people, other times cargo. all flights have long since been “unmanned,” meaning without any human pilots actually flying the aircraft. it all started when the military began using unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, for a variety of missions. then came the unmanned cargo planes. then unmanned small airplanes operated by smaller & regional airlines. it didn’t take long for airlines to retire & replace pilots. anyway, that was an era or two ago. back at the flight center, the work is incredibly challenging, because it’s incredibly boring, and it’s been years since any “event” was reported. the human mind was not meant for repetitive tasks, especially repetitive & mental non-tasks. those not on duty, are constantly “simmed” to test their decision-making skills with emergency drills. every conceivable “event” is simulated. every action / reaction, inattentiveness, as well as other “key” parameters, are recorded & analyzed. an occasional “curve ball” is thrown in now & then to throw off the seasoned veterans, who have learned to predict & anticipate the next scenarios, responding with the expected behavior & precise procedural actions, including, the occasional pause for “check, cross-check & acknowledge.” everyday, at the start of every shift, it’s sims, then it’s off to another day of duty & flight time. the most desired positions are take-offs and landings, because there’s the slim chance you can actually hand-fly the aircraft. it always sets off a crisis management alert, which always gets everyone excited, especially the sups & duty managers. en route is mostly managed by aircraft on-board computers & autopilot,100% every time, all the time. do not disengage the AP, or prepare to undergo stalag 13 interrogation. no-one wants en route. some have moved on to air traffic control. some to maintenance & engineering. computers & “drones” do most of the work. transporting people / cargo is now routinely managed by intelligent machines or, as they are called, “the mechs.” no-one wants en route.
Mike Webb
October 2, 2022 at 12:35 pm
NO!!! Computer’s are not infallible. I see hacking of these systems as only one of several problems.
Richard Forehand
October 2, 2022 at 1:04 pm
That is a real concern and I hope the designers and programmers have worked to ensure the security of their systems.
Burhan
October 2, 2022 at 12:48 pm
Great idea
KillerTacos
October 2, 2022 at 12:50 pm
Wow
SeaJay Oceans
October 2, 2022 at 1:02 pm
Wow… people learned absolutely nothing from 9 – 11 …
Paul Weder
October 2, 2022 at 1:03 pm
Did it really land autonomously? That would be a great step forward. Because you need a lot of trust to let it do what it was programmed to. I personally would not have enough trust yet.
One must also be aware that, if the conditions are changing, the pilot would have to get into control again quickly, so as to avoid any wrong behaviors from the autopilot.
But I doubt that this can be used for automated cargo transportation. It would not turn out to be efficient enough with cheap goods. If it carries expensive goods, and goods in masses, then pilots would be used anyhow. I mean real pilots. So this is only experimental, and will not get over the point to the real market.
But thanks for this good and interesting film.
Rachatat Bunpat
October 2, 2022 at 1:11 pm
Autoland already exists. It uses ILS. A full autoland is Category 3.
Paul Weder
October 2, 2022 at 1:20 pm
@Rachatat Bunpat Yes, this is known, but for airliners, not for cargo flights in small aircrafts.
Rachatat Bunpat
October 2, 2022 at 1:26 pm
@Paul Weder Oh okay I thought you mean airliners lol
Richard Forehand
October 2, 2022 at 1:05 pm
I would be first in line!
I do want to hear how they have secured the system against hackers.
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October 2, 2022 at 6:09 pm
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Odd Helge Rosberg
October 2, 2022 at 1:23 pm
Not for a long time. Starting with cargo is a great idea, and if cargo planes used it successfully for ten years without accidents, and in volumes, I would certainly trust it.
Farmer Ted
October 2, 2022 at 1:38 pm
Dangerous thinking to feel computers will solve all of aviations problems! A few years back I was flying a near new B-737-800 into Cleveland at night in the weather and we had a double FMS (flight computer) failure. It’s something that’s not supposed to happen as the systems are independent and redundant of each other. Having been based in Cleveland for over 15 years at the time I knew the arrival by heart using VOR’s to navigate not GPS as they were both resetting and would not be reset till after touchdown. Now what would the computer have done? No reference to position, or ability to navigate while both Flight management computers went thru their reset?
Farmer Ted
October 3, 2022 at 12:42 pm
@Sam Lawson I had three INS systems (prior to wide spread gps usage)when flying the 747 years ago, I’m hoping they are better now. There was a reason we had three ins systems and not two or one. They were very finicky as to proper setup and not being bumped while warming up.
Panda
October 3, 2022 at 5:04 pm
It only broke because of an over sight in the sensors it used for angle of attack. If the engineers were more careful the issue wouldn’t have happened. Therefore the issue is not with computers and rather with corporations skimping on costs instead of focusing on safety.
Farmer Ted
October 3, 2022 at 5:29 pm
@Panda we are not talking about the max, this is concerning the fms system and it’s integration in a 737 NG 800. Different animals. My point is it was the computers! Both failed in what was considered a near impossibility for both to fail simultaneously when they were considered independent of each other. If the computer doesn’t know where it’s at or worse failed completely as in my case, I wouldn’t want to be on that aircraft.
Farmer Ted
October 3, 2022 at 5:30 pm
@TiranaEffinCity I’m not sure the drone pilot has any skin in the game, and what if he isn’t at his station or has no comm with the aircraft in question.
Mark
October 3, 2022 at 10:54 pm
@Farmer Ted They don’t need reference from GPS, they can calculate position based on speed and direction + gyroscope data and lidar.
AgentZeroNine1
October 2, 2022 at 2:22 pm
When the first fully AI based plane forcefully nosedives into either the ground or sea and ends the lives of a large number of people due to a miscalculation in its predictive model, this robot pilot dream will be over. I’ll never get on an AI based plane that doesn’t have a human pilot on board at the cockpit even though that’s the dream of most airline CEOs; less humans/pilot employees to pay, more profit for the C-Suit. Wonder if that’s also the goal for flight attendants.
The Transformation Channel
October 2, 2022 at 3:15 pm
As long as their is a human in the seat in case something goes wrong then I don’t have a problem with it.
Chris Teasdale
October 2, 2022 at 8:03 pm
In a similar situation would this system even consider the landing that a pilot with years of experience like Sully Sullenberger did in 2009 or would it simply have randomly picked the nearest airport to crash short of? These systems as aides are great but keep trained humans in the cockpit.
Kaipeternicolas
October 3, 2022 at 12:07 am
As a pilot, I had to downvote this video. This is the last thing I want.
A346Driver
October 3, 2022 at 12:10 am
Terrible. Absolutely terrible. We are our own worst enemy. Technology like this will remove jobs and make well-educated people even more disposable. Comparing an elevator operated with a pilot is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard too.
PetSmith777
October 3, 2022 at 12:13 am
Right you’re “creating jobs” lol. Because I want to give up my seat in an airplane for a “remote operator” desk. What a joke. This is terrible and just sad to see. Why don’t we automate CEO’s with robot technology too?
Matthew Choate
October 3, 2022 at 3:33 am
Impressive kind of but not that hard to pull this off. And definitely doesn’t mean anything for aviation, regardless of how advanced it gets the beef in the back would never allow this.
cggnow
October 3, 2022 at 4:28 am
Give it a million hours of flight time flying cargo under various conditions, and I would consider riding with it.
C Williams
October 3, 2022 at 7:47 am
…and what do you think happens on transatlantic flights?.. they’re on autopilot!
Zorba Kaput
October 3, 2022 at 9:08 am
Just like Tesla its great when everything is going to plan. Throw an errant bird strike, lightning strike that takes electronics out (it still does happen) whatever and then see how the AI handles it. Ask your North American electric car owners what they are going to do when they get into a blizzard snow storm and emergency rescue cant get to the cars and your electric battery cant run the heater anymore? All real life events that autonomy has no answer for yet. Comparing autonomy of an 1 dimensional controlled elevator to a 3D open space aircraft really needs some stronger fumes out of your pipe.
Don Newton
October 3, 2022 at 12:06 pm
All pilots do NOW is take off and land. 90% of the time they’re under autopilot anyway, so this makes total sense. Planes have been almost able to land on autopilot for a long time. I switch mine off at the very last second (30-50 feet off the runway. But if you’re locked on the glide slope the autopilot COULD land itself, it just can’t shut the engine down to come to a stop).
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October 3, 2022 at 5:20 pm
alright thanks superpilot for reminding me that the future is here 😳
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