Comment Re:News For Nerds (Score 2) 41
My understanding is that there is much less technology devoted to controlling the location of aircraft on the ground than there is to controlling where they are in the air. There are no automated warnings when pilots mistakenly enter a runway they shouldn''t be one nor are planes in the process of landing alerted to the presence of aircraft or other obstructions. Monitoring this is all left to the air traffic controllers, who do it manually. It seems likely that this situation could be improved if there were better software systems for monitoring what is happening on the ground.