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You can't fit a manual override to these systems any more than you can a person.
by LatteLazy 3y ago
You can't fit a manual override to these systems any more than you can a person.
- dylan604 3y agowhat? if a computer control is installed to a physical anything, you can always add cutoffs to the control at the physical point so that even if the computer is telling it to do something the physical thing no longer receives those controls/signals. designing it without those safety precautions would be 100% asinine. it'd be like allowing openai to design everything with no controls. even Musk allows the drivers to take control away when FSD is engaged. you're bonkers if you think we can't make manual overrides like this.
- LatteLazy 3y agoModern planes are purely computer controlled. I imagine the same is true of Teslas. And nuclear power plants and missile systems etc.
- dylan604 3y agoHuh? if this were true, the plane would never have been safely landed in the Hudson by a human pilot. yes, the majority of flights are flown by the computer autopilot because of the fuel efficiency, but the pilot can take control at any point.
- LatteLazy 3y agoThe Hudson was a bird in an engine. The computer was working fine. Now imagine if you tell the computer to do X and it just ignores you. You have no actual control over the engines, flaps, etc. The computer does. And it ignores you...