Honeywell is experimenting with an autopilot not to fly the plane but to taxi it, the Wall Street Journal reports. It’s harder than it may seem because the biggest problem—sensing and avoiding objects—is particularly thorny in crowded airports.
via Honeywell Wants to Teach Airliners How to Taxi – IEEE Spectrum.
And that’s even harder than automating flight.
Interface for partially automating huge and bulky limited movement ground vehicles
Eventual applications to commercial airports, trucking industry, aircraft manufacturing, etc.
MIT Humans and Automation Lab (Prof Mary Cummings) [src]