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You dont have to be pilot or even remotely interested in aircraft to know the term. Its like "Blackbox" everyone with basic education has heard about it. >I be
by noxer 5y ago
You dont have to be pilot or even remotely interested in aircraft to know the term. Its like "Blackbox" everyone with basic education has heard about it.
>I bet for most people autopilot means computer does driving.
That is the claim but there is no evidence at all. Everyone knows there is a pilot in almost every aircraft and that autopilot is just a computer that takes work away. If it would fly alone there would be no pilot.
There should be no people with a driver license who think autopilot means no human needed. Its completely absurd. That word never meant that and its not people misinterpreting the word that sleep in their cars and crash it. These people are not mislead by a word they are just irresponsible and fully aware of it or drunk.
- runarberg 5y agoI guess we won’t know until we ask a random sample. Until then—and unless Tesla has conducted a survey and is not sharing—we can assume at best negligence and at worst intentional market manipulation.
- noxer 5y agoI guess we assume word have meaning and are mostly understood by everyone according to the meanings or people dont understand the word at all if they never heard it. Assuming wide spread misinterpretation is a bit far fetched especially for a word that the average teenager knows what it means.
- johnisgood 5y agoI think people do think that for the most part, the airplane goes on autopilot, requiring minimal input from the pilot, and when everything goes smoothly, no input is required from the pilot. Input is only required when things go wrong. I think this is what people think, but I am just speculating.