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The design issue in this case is not making it blatantly and unavoidably obvious that the GPS had failed. The dead reckoning system should probably also give a
by lnguyen 17y ago
The design issue in this case is not making it blatantly and unavoidably obvious that the GPS had failed. The dead reckoning system should probably also give an error range instead of keeping any appearance of the same "pinpoint" accuracy.
- ars 17y agoThe system was self steering (i.e. driving the ship) - there was no one to give an error range to. No one was watching it because it normally works so well that there is no reason to double check it. An error indicator is no help if no one goes to look at it.