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There is no possible way to confuse these two actions. There's a reason a wheel is attached to the gear lever.
by russdill 1y ago
There is no possible way to confuse these two actions. There's a reason a wheel is attached to the gear lever.
- energy123 1y agoI want you to guess how many traffic accidents are caused by accidentally reversing when you intended to go forward. Test your mental model against the real world. This is your opportunity.
- Mawr 1y agoThose are caused by operating the same lever in a slightly different manner. Not comparable to two completely differently designed levers placed far apart. Same goes for accidental acceleration instead of braking. Two of the same kind of lever right next to each other. Accidental acceleration while intending to turn on the wipers would be a fitting example, I don't think that happens though.
- interestica 1y agoYou’re just overlaying your mental model. Think of the action as a stored function. Maybe they’ve always recalled the function as part of a certain list. It can be a case where the lists get confused rather than the modality of input (lever etc)
- vachina 1y agoThen that would be pilot error, and an aggravating error.
- bravesoul2 1y agoDriving isn't trained to anywhere near the same standard. Probably more training required to bake a cake than drive a car (hours wise). If we had your typical driver fly a plane we'd be doomed to a lot of crashes.
- account42 1y agoI have baked cakes without ever been trained for it.
- malfist 1y agoThe other day I was eating dinner while chatting with my partner. I finished eating and needed to pee and throw away the fast food container. I walked straight to the bathroom, raised the toilet lid and threw the fast food container right into the toilet. Weird mistakes can happen. My partner got a good laugh out of it
- brookst 1y agoYep, I’ve taken clean dishes from the dishwasher and put them “away” in the refrigerator.
- kshacker 1y agoAs I get older, I do some similar stuff, way more than past, even it is just once per month. And I guess way more when sugar is high than not. Don't know your age or medical profile and I am not a doctor, just keep an eye.
- chmod775 1y agoSometimes people put cleaning liquid in the fridge. Given a long enough span of time, every possible fuck up eventually will happen.
- Mawr 1y agoBecause there's no difference in actions needed to do so. A similar mistake is throwing away a useful item while holding onto a piece of trash. The action is the same, it's just the item in question that's different. This is not what happened here at all. The actions needed to activate the fuel cutoff switches are not similar to any other action a pilot would want to make during takeoff.
- interestica 1y agoThe form of the action isn’t necessarily what’s stored. They may have memorized something as “fourth action” or some other mnemonic mechanism
- dboreham 1y agoProbably time to design a plane that can't be sent into terrain in seconds by flipping a switch.
- Mawr 1y agoAnd a gun that doesn't let you point it at your face. And a knife that doesn't let you cut yourself. And a car that doesn't let you accelerate into a static object. And...
- brookst 1y agoHey my car won’t let me accelerate into a static object. It’s so good it will even slam on the brakes when driving 5mph in a parking garage because it thinks parked cars are oncoming traffic.
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- cjbprime 1y ago> There is no possible way to confuse these two actions. This is obviously an overstatement. Any two regularly performed actions can be confused. Sometimes (when tired or distracted) I've walked into my bathroom intending to shave, but mistakenly brushed my teeth and left. My toothbrush and razor are not similar in function or placement.
- bigDinosaur 1y agoIf someone confused their steering wheel for the brake you'd probably be surprised - there are indeed errors that are essentially impossible for a competent person to make by mistake. No idea about the plane controls, though.
- globular-toast 1y agoEven in modern "fly by wire" cars the steering wheel and brake pedal have an immediate effect. They are essentially directly connect to their respective control mechanisms. As far as I understand both of the plane controls on question just trigger sequences that are carried out automatically. So it's more like firing off the wrong backup script than scratching the wrong armpit.
- eptcyka 1y agoThe only two production cars on sale where the steering wheel is mechanically decoupled from the wheels are the cybertruck and a variant of the Lexus RX.
- account42 1y agoEssentially impossible is not the same as impossible. We already know that an improbably sequence of events took place because a plane crashed which is highly unusual.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoEven humans have fixed action patterns. Much behavior is barely under conscious control.