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The captain of the US ship was asleep. The article suggests the cargo ship was completely computer-controlled at the time of the incident and for a little while
by Amezarak 9y ago
The captain of the US ship was asleep. The article suggests the cargo ship was completely computer-controlled at the time of the incident and for a little while afterwards, until the crew realized what happened. I don't think the two-egos-colliding story works here.
Additionally, the destroyer was hit around the middle of the right side while the cargo ship hit head-on.
- okket 9y agoThe egos work also on lower levels, e.g. someone looking at a radar and assuming they have the right of passage b/c they are bigger vs. military. I can not image that no radar alarm was heard and reacted upon on both ships. But it takes a lot of things to wrong for this to happen.