From a derived conclusion from a customer perspective of my "Value Proposition for an Optionally-Piloted Vertical Takeoff and Landing Platform" grad school project for the Blackhawk this summer:
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The time you would spend piloting the helicopter is not better spent worrying about why the helicopter is doing what it is doing.
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In >90% of today's mobile platforms that perform any useful function, full autonomy does not save any time, money, or resources due to the exorbitant cost of development to reach the market in any shortened time frame. They simply add capability that previously was not there and usually increase cost by a factor of more than 2. Long-term, full autonomy is an option since the cost is so spread out, yet that is 25-30 years away for a full-scale system.
You people are weird... Now if you'll excuse me, I have some code to debug and I need to figure out where to get tank tracks. - sciguy125 [more] 
18-08-2010, 12:47
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