Losing even one in 10 customers would substantially reduce airlines' revenue. They don't make much money on each flight as it is; less income would likely cause them to shrink their service, flying fewer routes less frequently.
The problem wouldn't just be customers who chose not to fly. Some passengers might split trips between self-driving cars and airplanes, which would further reduce airlines' revenue. For instance, a person in Savannah, Georgia, who wants to go to London could choose to change planes in Atlanta—or take a self-driving car to the Atlanta airport, and skip the layover.
These changes could substantially change the aviation industry, with airlines ordering fewer airplanes from manufacturers, airports seeing fewer daily flights and lower revenue from parking lots, and even airport hotels hosting fewer guests. The future of driverless cars is appealing to consumers—which means the future of commercial flight is in danger.
A personal fondling session from a TSA agent named Brad, or 5 hours in your self-driving Mazda that your four-year old smeared peanut butter in?
(Score: 3, Touché) by krishnoid on Tuesday June 11 2019, @11:58PM (3 children)
If you're going to split the trip, this way you get the best of both worlds. Ahh, the future. And now you have five hours to put some elbow grease into getting that peanut butter out.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 12 2019, @02:37AM (2 children)
Spend just 30 seconds picturing some of the ways that could go incredibly, hilariously and tragically wrong. Write them down. Tell me how many years before they are all covered as story elements in fictional movies.
I bet the answer is less than 5 years... the only trick is that nobody can possibly watch all the movies that come out anymore, but buried in that Netflix produced content will be every easy gag imaginable - as long as it fits a screenplay with 3 or fewer principle human characters.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 12 2019, @05:30PM (1 child)
Oh, it will be even better than that when they format it like a "choose your own adventure" like "You vs. Wild with Bear Grylls."
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 12 2019, @07:05PM
I wanted to like that, I really did, but I just couldn't continue after the St. Bernard lost in the mountains, it was too predictably dumb.
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