PHYSICAL SYSTEMS / 18 SEP 2026
No onboard intervention is not no human control.
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Working thesis
Joby reports a 3,199-mile autonomous transcontinental flight with zero control inputs from the onboard safety pilot, while the aircraft remained remotely supervised. Mission completion therefore requires a supervision topology—not a binary autonomous label.
Research questions
- 01
Distinguish command acceptance, execution and measured physical effect.
- 02
Bind human and machine supervision topology to every material action.
- 03
Preserve sensor provenance, freshness, authority and disagreement.
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