Despite the cheaper cost, few people dare to fly unmanned aircraft

Flights that do not need control pilots will appear in the future. But according to a new study by Swiss bank UBS, users are still not ready to receive it.

According to The Verge, of the 8000 people surveyed, more than half of them said they did not want to travel on an unmanned aircraft, even if the price was cheaper. In general, only 17% said they would consider flying on such a flight, but this number increased to 27% when reduced to 18-24 year olds, and 31% from 25- 34 years old.

The degree of acceptance of flying unmanned aircraft varies from country to country. Survey respondents with German and French nationalities are the group with the lowest rate (13%), while the US is 27%, the highest among the respondents.

The degree of acceptance of flying unmanned aircraft varies from country to country.(Photo: Unmanned System Technology).

The study also identified unmanned aircraft that could save airlines more than $ 30 billion a year, from energy savings due to optimized flight routes to minimize the costs of training pilots. UBS believes that passengers will be aware of these savings in the form of discounted tickets, assuming there are no additional "out-of-flow" costs in operating unmanned aircraft and airlines do not retain benefits. While European passengers only fell by 4%, the report wrote: "The average ratio of average costs and profits can be transferred to passengers in reducing the fare of airlines. America is 11% ".

UBS predicts that these changes will make air travel safer, minimizing mistakes in the cockpit that come from people.Unmanned drones have now been tested and "conceptualized" : Lilium Aviation recently conducted prototype prototypes of fully electric aircraft, two-seat and vertical take-off / landing. (VTOL - Vertical Take Off and Landing); Urban Aeronautics, owned by Tel-Aviv, plans to build a four-seat "flying car" powered by hydrogen by 2022; Airbus Defense & Space has recently completed a test with Sagitta, which has been able to fly for 7 minutes on an established schedule at Overberg, South Africa.

"Flying taxi" and cargo aircraft will be the first to use unmanned technology , followed by helicopters and business aircraft, eventually commercial passenger aircraft "already Minimize the workload in the cockpit ". When those who took the idea of ​​flying on autonomous aircraft were the youngest, UBS said that "this will help the development of this technology in the future, when the group of people aged 18 -34 is a few years older but still keeps a positive attitude before flying on unmanned aircraft ".