The FAA is undertaking a study  to test the feasibility of having unmanned commercial airline flights.  I hope such a project comes to pass for, if anything, the prospect of flying on pilotless planes will help to separate the intelligent from the unintelligent flyers.  Only a complete boob — and America is full of them — would be willing to trust the inconstancies of air travel to a computer.  Any mid-air mishaps could only help to reduce the numbers who reside at the shallow end of the gene pool.

I can just hear the on-flight recorded message giving passengers all of their “safety instructions” (George Carlin, why did you have to leave us?),  concluding with the words:  “this computerized flight is perfectly safe; you can trust us, trust us, trust us, trust us.”

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