The Air Force's Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System has saved at least eight F-16 pilots from controlled flight into terrain since 2014 - and the technology is pushing aviation toward a fundamental question about who, or what, has final authority over the controls.
VectorThe Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System has saved nine F-16 pilots since its 2014 deployment - and the path to general aviation remains technically and legally complex.
VectorHow Auto-GCAS, the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, takes control from an unconscious pilot to pull an F-16 off the ground and save lives.
VectorHow Auto-GCAS automatically rolls an F-16 upright and pulls it out of a dive to save unconscious pilots from ground collision.
VectorHow Auto-GCAS quietly monitors an F-16's flight path and takes control at the last recoverable instant to save pilots who have blacked out.
VectorHow Auto-GCAS, the F-16's ground collision system, waits until the last half-second to fly the jet out of a fatal dive itself.
VectorThe F-16's Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System has saved multiple pilots from certain death since 2014 - and its technology may reshape civilian aviation safety.
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