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Well ... It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London: https://thetaxi.academy/ https://thetaxi.academy/ It takes also many years o

by realo 15d ago

Well ... It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London: https://thetaxi.academy/ https://thetaxi.academy/ It takes also many years of study before they will let you touch any living person with your scalpel, and then many years of apprenticeship with actual surgeons when you do touch people with your tools. I can imagine maintaining a big jumbo jet also requires some specialized practical knowledge you cannot acquire just by reading books and looking at nice little videos. The problem is not to explain things when everything works perfectly. The problem is getting the ability to diagnose the root causes of defects using all your senses and your intuition. That is not taught in books.

netdevphoenix 15d ago
> It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London That doesn't apply to private hire vehicle drivers afaik.
- nephihaha 15d ago
  Private hire is technically not a taxi. They can't pick someone up at a rank or on the street.
- dpoloncsak 15d ago
  Or Uber drivers in London
  - celsoazevedo 15d ago
    (In case you're not aware) It's the same thing. Uber operates in London as private hire operator, so their drivers are mini cab drivers. Same rules (now: basic English and rules test, yearly car inspections, MOT every 6 months, cars must have TFL badges, etc).
- IAmBroom 15d ago
  ... who are obviously not taxi drivers, so ... your point?
quickthrowman 15d ago
There are detailed step-by-step instruction cards (task cards) for every single maintenance operation on an airplane. Nobody is reinventing the wheel, they’re carefully following predetermined procedures. Someone has to figure out which maintenance procedures need to happen, but the work itself is laid out for you step by step.
- realo 15d ago
  Cool! I did not know that. Augmented reality glasses, coupled with an AI that can interpret vision would seem to be useful here then.
  - quickthrowman 15d ago
    I’ve had the same thought re: AR glasses with a HUD for mechanics/construction workers, there are a lot of cool possibilities.
    - realo 15d ago
      Yeah ... then you can have basically anyone off the street do the job. A great opportunity to pay your jumbo jet mechanics less than taxi drivers. I guess it would explain those small insignificant issues, however: https://viewfromthewing.com/ntsb-report-confirms-the-unraveling-of-boeing-missing-bolts-and-a-quality-control-crisis/ https://viewfromthewing.com/ntsb-report-confirms-the-unravel...
    - dam_jackalopes 15d ago
      We worked on a proof of concept using HoloLens for an engine teardown team at a trucking OEM. Ran into issues around network, security, the Hololens itself and a general disinterest from the teardown team but there's a lot of room to run in this space. It was a fun, if frustrating, project.
  - Guthwine 15d ago
    This seems like a fast-track to making airline mechanics a minimum-wage, any-guy-off-the-street kind of job, which is not who I want touching the plane I'm flying in. There needs to be SOME accountability. "Oh, but my glasses told me to unscrew this bolt, I was just following orders." is not how I want the future to be.
larrywright 15d ago
> It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London I’ve only been to London once, for work. One of the coolest things I did when I was there was to take a black London cab from the financial district to Heathrow when I was leaving. It was probably a 30 minute drive. The driver had been driving a cab since 1982. He told me all about the requirements and training for being a cab driver and a bunch of other things that I did not know (for example, they own the cars, and they can choose when they work). He was also a wealth of information about London, as you can imagine, and pointed out lots of interesting things as we drove. It was probably a $50 cab ride, but worth every penny (even though it wasn’t my money since it was a work trip).
- AshleyGrant 15d ago
  I've only taken a London cab once. The bastard got lost!

by realo 15d ago

netdevphoenix 15d ago

> It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London That doesn't apply to private hire vehicle drivers afaik.

nephihaha 15d ago
Private hire is technically not a taxi. They can't pick someone up at a rank or on the street.
dpoloncsak 15d ago
Or Uber drivers in London
- celsoazevedo 15d ago
  (In case you're not aware) It's the same thing. Uber operates in London as private hire operator, so their drivers are mini cab drivers. Same rules (now: basic English and rules test, yearly car inspections, MOT every 6 months, cars must have TFL badges, etc).
IAmBroom 15d ago
... who are obviously not taxi drivers, so ... your point?

quickthrowman 15d ago

There are detailed step-by-step instruction cards (task cards) for every single maintenance operation on an airplane. Nobody is reinventing the wheel, they’re carefully following predetermined procedures. Someone has to figure out which maintenance procedures need to happen, but the work itself is laid out for you step by step.

realo 15d ago
Cool! I did not know that. Augmented reality glasses, coupled with an AI that can interpret vision would seem to be useful here then.
- quickthrowman 15d ago
  I’ve had the same thought re: AR glasses with a HUD for mechanics/construction workers, there are a lot of cool possibilities.
  - realo 15d ago
    Yeah ... then you can have basically anyone off the street do the job. A great opportunity to pay your jumbo jet mechanics less than taxi drivers. I guess it would explain those small insignificant issues, however: https://viewfromthewing.com/ntsb-report-confirms-the-unraveling-of-boeing-missing-bolts-and-a-quality-control-crisis/ https://viewfromthewing.com/ntsb-report-confirms-the-unravel...
  - dam_jackalopes 15d ago
    We worked on a proof of concept using HoloLens for an engine teardown team at a trucking OEM. Ran into issues around network, security, the Hololens itself and a general disinterest from the teardown team but there's a lot of room to run in this space. It was a fun, if frustrating, project.
- Guthwine 15d ago
  This seems like a fast-track to making airline mechanics a minimum-wage, any-guy-off-the-street kind of job, which is not who I want touching the plane I'm flying in. There needs to be SOME accountability. "Oh, but my glasses told me to unscrew this bolt, I was just following orders." is not how I want the future to be.

larrywright 15d ago

> It takes four years of education before becoming a taxi driver in London I’ve only been to London once, for work. One of the coolest things I did when I was there was to take a black London cab from the financial district to Heathrow when I was leaving. It was probably a 30 minute drive. The driver had been driving a cab since 1982. He told me all about the requirements and training for being a cab driver and a bunch of other things that I did not know (for example, they own the cars, and they can choose when they work). He was also a wealth of information about London, as you can imagine, and pointed out lots of interesting things as we drove. It was probably a $50 cab ride, but worth every penny (even though it wasn’t my money since it was a work trip).

AshleyGrant 15d ago
I've only taken a London cab once. The bastard got lost!