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As assisting systems mature, we will get humans paying less and less attention to driving. Just last night I was watching air crash investigations and there wer
by dsego 7y ago
As assisting systems mature, we will get humans paying less and less attention to driving. Just last night I was watching air crash investigations and there were a series of accidents on a 777 where the pilots where "expecting" the airplane do something because usually the automated system picks up the slack, well except in that particular circumstance when the accident occurred. And these are trained pilots and they understand these systems fairly well (at least when they are told about them). I don't think the general population will ever be trained or have a deep understanding of their car's assistance modes, they will expect it to work. Overall, cars will probably be safer, but we are probably going to witness freak accidents as a combination of driver inexperience and software bugs.
- nradov 7y agoYou're probably thinking of a different airplane? The Boeing 777 is pretty much the safest airliner and hasn't had any "series of accidents". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777#Accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777#Accidents_and_incid...
- dsego 7y agoMaybe not a series on that same type. The crash investigation was about a pilot moving from an airbus to boeing, and it was a 777. The plane did what it was supposed to but the captain didn't know what he was doing. It was on an approach to SF and several people died, someone got run over by a fire truck. The series of accidents mentioned was probably attributable to pilots vs automation and not only to that particular plane model.
- hodgesrm 7y agoYou are thinking of Asiana Flight 214. Pilot error was the main cause of the accident though there were contributing causes like auto-pilot documentation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214