Sunday, July 6, 2014

If It Ain't Boeing, I Ain't Going

Airbus has filed a patent application for a virtual reality cockpit.

If a better rendition of this is released, somebody needs to overlay a Blue Screen of Death on the display, like this:


There may be a tricky issue about what known in the patent business as "prior art". This one of the renditions of Airbus's cockpit:


Looks kind of familiar to me:


And if Boeing adopts the same thing, I'll drive or take the train. For if the cockpit is "virtual", what prevents it from being remotely controlled, like a drone?
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2 comments:

  1. Old NFO7/06/2014 5:26 PM

    I stay off them as much as I can now... If this, oh HELL no...

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  2. Nangleator7/07/2014 11:57 AM

    Well, don't worry about your pilot. He'll be sitting in an air-conditioned trailer in Chicago, and he'll have years of experience flying drones over Afghanistan.

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