A large part of the reason that these are multi million dollar vehicles is that it needs to safely sustain a human pilot in it.

Also, that pilot does need to get paid on the 350 days a year that there are no forest fires to be extinguished.

A fuse can sit 99.9999999% of its lifetime in a circuit doing nothing, should we get rid of fuses?

	▲	georgefrowny an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I've literally heard someone say that we should remove the protection circuits because it's two dollars of parts protecting under a dollar of amplifiers. Yes, the amplifiers are cheap, but the rest of the board isn't and if the amplifiers get blown up that's 1000 dollars in support costs and RMAs, bad customer opinion and a line stoppage to boot.