Why do we still need to hunt for black boxes in accidents?
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
It's expensive.
100% wireless uptime on an airplane with the necessary bandwidth cannot be guaranteed worldwide.
100% wireless uptime on an airplane with the necessary bandwidth cannot be guaranteed worldwide.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Because all the money that could potentially go into black box equivalent technologies and mass production of said technologies instead goes to developments regarding making planes crash less, thus negating the need to make the black box better
Unknown Soldier
Member
Well I mean they could start by not letting Boeing make airplanes anymore, but that's not going to happen is it?
captainraincoat
Banned
You ever tried to use a phone underwater?…..phone or wireless signals don't work very well underwater is my understanding and it's also one of the reasons why they lose submarines as they can't communicate unless they are close to surface or have their Antenna topside
Avid Reading Horse
Member
If a plane is in the middle of some kind of catastrophic failure there's a decent chance that your cloud uplink will fail. So, it's not like you can really get rid of the black box concept.
AlteredForms
Banned
There was a joke somewhere about a guy who said the first thing he would do in a planecrash was find the black box and grab onto it for dear life. Because that sucker wasn't going to break 
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Scotty W
Banned
They should just make it so that the wireless can be switched on wirelessly when they need it.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
wat
Tams
Member
Ah, another naïve, ignorant comment about 'Why aren't we using The Cloud™ for x?!'
Ionian
Member
5 cats, one meal. Guaranteed the winner rats. No need for wireless plus they have those Mario 100 coin bonus lives in spades. (Next Elon Musk project).
Cable will be massive but we'll have affordable crashes on Jupiter's belt, which is mineral rich so pays for itself. (Shall probably need a robotic dog for retrieval).
Cyberpunkd
Member
It's so funny that out of the two companies it's the European Airbus that loads their planes with computers and sensors.
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trikster40
Member
One of the main purposes of the black box is to capture data without it being compromised. Any kind of stream, upload, etc could be intercepted and/or manipulated, causing the data to lose its validity.
HoodWinked
Member
They already track flights so this is something that they probably will do eventually when they automate the piloting. There would need to be infrastructure and standards developed and reliable satellite internet. If starlink works it would get the ball rolling.
But also the current system is pretty efficient low cost and low maintenance. Also crashes are still extremely rare so any push to updating the system is minimal.
But also the current system is pretty efficient low cost and low maintenance. Also crashes are still extremely rare so any push to updating the system is minimal.