Motor car transportation will become a thing of the past in the future, and more aircraft will flourish in the airways above. The world needs to spend more time working on new concepts instead of lousy petrol-burning automobiles. Let us see into a future with alternative transportation, a world where a car accident is an occurrence of computer miss-management and is few and far between.

The year is 2084, Monday the xx of December at 0600 hrs. You wake up from your sleep, and your living quarters can already tell, so they go about their pre-programmed tasks. Tasks such as preparing the environment that you like in the morning, lighting, heat, and ambiance such as the news/weather. Your breakfast is being prepared in your automated kitchen, along with your favorite coffee product. You make your way over to the bathhouse, and proceed to wash-up, and clean. Some people will even have the luxury to have a robotic assistant to tend for duties.

The UCAV is a project with good intentions, but the effects of automated warfare may be undesirable. There are some definite advantages to having an aircraft that does not need a pilot. It is estimated that 80% of the useful life of current military aircraft is devoted to pilot training and proficiency. Therefore, eliminating the pilot would greatly extend the efficiency and lifetime of the aircraft. The size and weight of the aircraft can also be greatly reduced when all pilot related systems are removed. It is estimated that production UCAV's will be half the size and one third to one quarter the weight of existing fighter aircraft. Also physiological factors are no longer limitations. Problems such as pilot fatigue, G limitations, and human error will be eliminated. Finally, one of the most impressive advantages to the UCAV is cost efficiency. It is estimated the UCAV will cost 65% less to produce and 75% less to operate and maintain than current modern fighter programs.

Today's Instrument Landing System (ILS) requires land-based radio equipment to be placed at the end of a runway. These ILS radio systems are expensive to install and maintain. As a result, only about 700 U.S. airports have this specialized equipment. GPS is already being used to guide airplanes to safe landings by using what are called "non-precision" approaches. While these approaches are in fact precise, they are only used to guide the airplane down to within about 500 feet of the runway surface, and require visibility of at least one mile. In the near future, GPS systems will be augmented by two special systems called the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and the Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS). These technologies will help GPS provide guidance all the way to the runway surface. By eliminating the need for costly and hard-to-install ILS systems on the ground, airborne GPS systems using WAAS will allow aircraft to fly precision approaches to thousands of small community airports that currently don't have ILS systems. This will reduce air traffic congestion at bigger airports, reduce air traffic delays during bad weather, and increase safety at all airports.

Once your flight plan is loaded, you can pass through the door to the garage. Your "car of the future", if you will, can automatically detect your feelings, and state of being. This aircraft can also perform self-maintenance and refueling tasks unaided. Talk about maintenance free! Also it will be able to redirect your flight via voice recognition.

What about the problems with removing the pilot from the cockpit? It is true that computers can be programmed to handle any scenario, bu

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