> The agentic option is a “copilot” — a virtual human who you talk with to get help flying the plane. If you’re about to run into another plane it might yell at you “collision, go right and down!”
Planes do actually have this now. It seems to work okay:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_...
Author here. I thought about including TCAS in the article but it felt too tangential…
You’re right that there’s a voice alert. But TCAS also has a map of nearby planes which is much more “HUD”! So it’s a combo of both approaches.
(Interestingly it seems that TCAS may predate Weiser’s 1992 talk)