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> MCAS was bad because Boeing and the airlines wanted to retrofit without additional training. It wasn't the automation that was bad per se. The implementation
by sofixa 4y ago
> MCAS was bad because Boeing and the airlines wanted to retrofit without additional training. It wasn't the automation that was bad per se.
The implementation was extremely terrible (no redundancy on the inputs), and it was Boeing that decided to hide its existence and overrides from everyone. Automation isn't bad, but when implemented with criminal negligence, it can be.