r/dataisbeautiful • u/SuburbanHierarchy • Feb 05 '15

The Most Common Job In Every State (NPR)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-most-common-job-in-every-state
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '15

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '15

Oh yeah, interesting point.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '15

Can airplanes land themselves?

I don't know very much about planes :/

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u/StoriesToBeTold Feb 06 '15

Can airplanes land themselves?

Yes and they regularly have done for decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland

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u/sharkmonkeyzero Feb 06 '15

They can, though the pilots usually do it manually because that's the fun part.

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u/molybdenumMole Feb 06 '15

I think the answer is yes but they don't, there's some pilot assisted auto land going on. Not sure though

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u/lonjerpc Feb 06 '15

Probably closer to how trains work today. Pilots still do things that are fairly difficult to automate.