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E-PrinceThere’s a British joke from the 1960s about the Irish airline Aer Fungus offering its first completely automated flight without a human pilot. After the passengers board, the joke goes, a voice comes over the loudspeaker saying, “welcome to ...(back to the article)
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Isn't it Aer Lingus? ...
it's part of the joke people, we call it Aer Fungus all the time bc it sucks.
I quite like this series. I find it very interesting and informative.
ditto Beeker's comment: keep writing, Josephine!
re: automated cars reducing car ownership -- I wonder how significant the effect will be, since so many people currently view possession of car(s) as a status symbol. We see a similar thing with fuel-efficient hybrids: it's much better for the environment, but people tend to not like to buy them because (cost aside) they're not as impressive as a large, traditional hunk of a vehicle. Only when gas prices began rocketing did many people start to seriously consider hybrids. Popularizing automated car rentals is probably going to take some other external factor as well.
If anyone is interested in the details of the Princeton team's vehicles, we have a website at http://pave.princeton.edu that includes videos and technical papers.