The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI

danso 20 points 16 comments September 17, 2026
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StanislavPetrov

Hallucinations when it comes to air traffic are going to be just swell.

itopaloglu83

I don’t understand why we’re using a voice based system to pass along a couple of structs worth of data for decades now. You want to get your approach clearance or weather report? Just call up the ATC on busy line with bunch of people talking fast and over each other.

bmitc

Isn't the staffing shortage directly because of Trump?

gepardi

“Cloud-based”. What happens when the cloud services experience an issue? This seems like a bad idea in general.

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