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Helping Rose to automate these tasks is Juerg Frefel, the company co-founder, vice president of engineering and the former leader of the team behind the computing platform for the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecrafts.Reliable’s systems aren’t fully automated, there’s still a pilot behind the scenes, but that pilot is monitoring systems and controlling the plane remotely, rather than sitting in the cockpit.Reliable started its experiments with retrofitting existing planes with autonomous systems in much the same way that Tesla began its journey into manufacturing by using existing frames for aircraft rather than designing its own.Control systems inside a Cessna retrofitted by Reliable Robotics. In June, the company demonstrated a fully remote landing for the Caravan over the San Jose approach path — a particularly heavily trafficked route.“There’s never been a privately funded program that’s ever done anything like that before,” said Rose.Enabling remote piloting and automating certain aspects of flight has tremendous potential to drive down costs and improve efficiencies in an industry that’s struggling with multiple stresses.“Automated aircraft are going to fundamentally shift the entire airline business, and Reliable Robotics is well positioned to be a key player in this new market,” said David Neeleman, a founder of several commercial airlines including JetBlue (and an investor in Reliable Robotics).The company’s autonomous platform can be applied to any fixed wing aircraft, but Reliable’s co-founder and chief executive doesn’t expect to be selling components.
As said here by Jonathan Shieber