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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 12 2019, @11:27AM
Whatever the odds (and never tell me), self-driving cars represent predictability, mass production with uniform predictable flaws and failure rates: the actuarial table calculators are dreaming of retiring to Bora Bora on this one, and the deep futurists can't stop salivating over the day that we get the human controlled vehicles off the road.
Newsflash: freeways might someday become auto-driver only zones, but until you're prepared to stop me from my morning bike ride, and keep pedestrians off the village crosswalks, you're always going to have human controlled obstacles in the auto-drivers' paths.
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