Contrary to popular opinion among those with lesser familiarity with reality, a Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV) does NOT ALWAYS MEAN there are no persons onboard. The term AUV, for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle, or UAV for Unmanned Air Vehicle are quite frequently misused to describe vehicles for which the names are not appropriate.

On the FIRST DRONE development program to which I was assigned, my initial instruction was to relocate the ash tray, install personnel oxygen, and redesign the seat to accomodate a parachute for "the man who wasn't there."

Vaguely similar ones appear to be still in use, although they're considered "a little odd" (?).

Several (large) special mission planes that actually do carry a pilot (for unknown purposes) fly the majority of most missions under automatic controls exactly like a UAV since automatic control gives more stable flight paths more accurately correlated to true position, ... but they still need a crew to flip switches since the right time to flip depends on where they get lost.

John