version of what they're working on, which means it will make always require a safety pilot on board, but the company is working to be entirely autonomous, meaning none of these by the end of next year. and they're also hoping to get faa certification in 202a. all that the human pilot on board has to do is physically turn the plane on, check that all systems are go and press the button that activates the autonomous system, then it's up to the plane. it does have to liaise with a human in the ground control centre while it's making its way to the runway for take—off, but that's just to ensure it's safe to cross certain parts of the strip. during take—off, it's almost like an ghost is in control because all of the parts are still moving but i'm not seeing what's moving them. once you've trained a robot once, you can build as many robots as you want, they all do the same thing, right? yeah. some of what the sensors and cameras are picking up is augmented over a real—time