The Importance of Autonomy in Flight

In flying, the pilot is there mainly for when things go wrong. A third of your training as a pilot is specifically just drilling emergency procedures. We have to really think about how to handle every fault case and be able to handle it with redundancy in autonomous system. Our drivers actually perform pre-flight inspections, as we call them, or pre-drive inspections,. each and every day with every load that they're carried.