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>Just spoof an oil tanker into the docks at Corpus Christi and you'd have an impossible disaster on your hands. The crew isn't staring at their GPS screens whe
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
>Just spoof an oil tanker into the docks at Corpus Christi and you'd have an impossible disaster on your hands.
The crew isn't staring at their GPS screens when they're in a harbor. This also assumed nobody notices the ship that's on a stupid course, they somehow don't get contacted and all the tug boats that are generally responsible for maneuvering those kinds of ships in those kinds of harbors don't do anything to deal with what looks like an out of control ship.
I know it looks like a serious vulnerability on paper but you have to get a lot of things just right for a single system failure (GPS) to cause a serious accident, especially during a time when the crew is on their toes.
- dmurray 7y agoRight, you'd need to try it with something like a US Navy missile destroyer instead.
- perl4ever 7y agoWhen you have multiple streams of information, and one goes haywire, you are only ok if you can identify which information is bad and which is fine. I remember reading about an airplane crash in which the pilot had a long time to try to figure things out, but once it was clear an instrument was faulty, other instruments that were reporting correct, but unexpected data were assumed to be faulty too, and eventually it was too late to recover. You can't compensate for bad information unless you have a correct model of the fault.