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> Boeing 737 Max, those crashes wouldn't have happened if there were no autopilot systems. Bad example. MCAS was an obvious case of a criminal corporate behavi
by pauljurczak 4y ago
> Boeing 737 Max, those crashes wouldn't have happened if there were no autopilot systems.
Bad example. MCAS was an obvious case of a criminal corporate behavior, not a tradeoff between overall safety vs. technical perfection.
- gitfan86 4y agoIt doesn't matter, the point is that relying on autopilot will open up crash risks that do not exist with manual flight controls
- pauljurczak 4y agoIt does matter! I'm assuming that any sane person, especially a highly trained professional, is not fully relying on automation and has at least some idea of its limitations. In the case of MCAS, corporate fraud distorted the level of trust pilots had in automation, leading to loss of life.