Once you slide into the Roadster — which, for me, at six feet tall, required some forethought — you're in a standard sports-car cockpit, one just large enough to fit two people and a loaf of bread.
Each one will look similar to a standard single-seat, open cockpit Formula 1 car, complete with large wings at the front and back.
Eventually, he said, the new weapons and sensors will slide into the ethos of war just like the autopilot, which was once disparaged by aviators as "Iron Mike" but is now a standard part of airplane cockpits.
The study's intention, Kissenger added, was to educate the public as well as foment more collaboration with the auto and electronics industries, with an eye toward developing international guidelines and standards for safer "cockpits" for drivers.
Some foresee the current standard — two pilots in the cockpit — replaced by one on board and one on the ground and, eventually, both on the ground.
Most every cockpit amenity comes standard, including a rear-window sunshade, retractable cargo net and even an expandable ski sack that pops out of the armrest between the rear seats.
Cockpit furnishings are standard Leaf fare, but the team ditched the rear seats and enclosed the cab with sheet metal (including a power window) from a junked full-size Titan pickup.
He introduced rigorous new training and testing standards, as well as some "cockpit culture" changes for Korean Air's 1,700 pilots.
The disappearance of the Russian airliner which crashed in Sinai on Saturday was preceded by sounds in the cockpit "uncharacteristic of a standard flight", according to Russian media.
The cathode-ray display also found its way into the cockpit, where it replaced standard analog information presentations and made far more information instantly available to pilots.
