we&#x27;re already in this regime for airline pilots and (anecdotally) the results aren&#x27;t great; the french airbus that went down over the ocean a few years ago was because of pilot error after an emergency condition (icing) disabled the autopilot.<p>I don&#x27;t know if that&#x27;s the <i>typical</i> case for autopilot tagging in its human, but it seems difficult to motivate and train experts who will only work 0.5% of the time. Expertise comes from experience.<p>Unless the pilots are required to be in the simulator the whole time the autopilot is running the plane, which would be interesting and cool.<p>We also have no idea of how fast autonomous systems will &#x27;evolve&#x27; (with programmer help at first) and &#x27;learn&#x27; once authorized to roam free. For their constrained domains, I suspect they&#x27;ll be up to &#x27;expert&#x27; performance pretty quickly; plus the rules will change as reaction times go down, attention per vehicle improves, and communications improve.