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Generally, non-military aircraft avoid collisions using radio broadcasts from various beacons (their own and those of other planes). Actual radar systems for detecting non-broadcasting obstacles are, per Wikipedia, generally only found on military aircraft. So if you define "an obstacle" as something that is not a plane broadcasting a beacon, then, yes, a Boeing 737 would probably run directly into it if it were somehow in the path of the autopilot.



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