An Immense Challenge for Our Species - with John Nixon - Part 2

We

got to

increase the energy density footprint a bit, reduce the weight.

That kind of answers a question that I had too, kind of thinking about public perception and reception, I guess.

I can talk to people now, and I won't name names or places, that are still very on the fence about the idea of even an EV.

I think many people are much more on board with the idea of EVs.

But whenever you translate that into like alternative fuel for aviation, how long do you think it takes for the public to be like, oh, well, this obviously we would do it this way.

It's not like it's not theoretical anymore.

We're just going to do it that way.

Think about this, Dylan.

Let's play suppose you go to the airport next week.

You get on the plane and you say, welcome to Autonomous Airlines.

This is the first aircraft.

We don't have a pilot anymore.

The jet's just going to fly itself.

If that announcement was made, how many people would get off the aircraft? Probably all of them.

Probably all of them.

But the reality is the way aircraft operate today, 95% of the flight that you just took last month, that John just took last week, was operated autonomously.

And aircraft can operate almost entirely autonomously now.

I have pilots listen to this podcast too.

I don't want to get them mad at me.

And I've talked to pilots about this and they say, well, the A key reason to have pilots and not just one pilot, but two pilots in the cockpit is for safety, because there are things that that autonomy cannot do.

And the pilots are there for the bad things that happen, and certainly they do.

And we haven't solved all those problems yet.

But we're working towards a future where we're going to solve those problems.