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dparkyesterday at 7:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

That’s such a great idea that it already exists and is deployed at La Guardia.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/rwsl


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Nitionyesterday at 9:05 PM

Thank you for providing your aviation knowledge to this discussion. What a classic example of tech people thinking that because they're smart, every other industry must be dumb and they can just jump in and fix it.

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Palomidestoday at 1:59 AM

I meant something in-vehicle for ground vehicles, like an extremely simple extrapolation of current velocity and the extremely predictable trajectory of a plane, instead of depending on going back and forth over radio asking a very busy fallible human, but sure

even my cheap car has geofencing and automatic braking

I've worked on avionics professionally and I haven't crashed any of my planes yet...

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mikeyouseyesterday at 10:04 PM

The habit where HN commenters greenfield solutions that are slightly worse versions of the ones experts already have in place is unmatched.

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