Self-driving home anyone?
Hi guys, I came across an article and became curious to know your opinion on the matter. Driverless cars are already looming on the horizon and there also projects to make motorhomes that will take y...
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wa8yxm wrote:
Airplanes are, for the most part, self driving now days.. IN fact it's not even that much computer (The ECC in a Ford can pilot one cross country) but once air born they fly and often land under computer control. .BUT A HUMAN PILOT is still needed just in cuss (No that is not as typo cause if he's needed cussing will be happening). Cause STUFF HAPPENS.
We watch a lot of those docu-dramas that show what happened, and what caused, major air disasters ... AND it's just plain scarry in many of those episodes as to what the final findings were.
Many of the reasons were that the pilots were so "used to" the plane's computer systems handling so much - flight after flight - that when the systems went haywire (often a transducer problem or a small mechanical part failure) the pilots didn't know what to do to manually counter-act what the systems were erroneously trying to do. The airline industry has had to actually retrain their pilots on how to fly an airliner the old fashioned manual way so as to be able to override a failing automatic-fly system!!
I can't imagine the overall danger in multiplying close to these kind of scenarios hundreds of millions of times all over the world as dumbed-down drivers and/or non-drivers suddenly see their lives flashing before them as they realize that the vehicle they are in or the vehicle coming at them is no longer "self driving" itself as it should. :(
"Change" is not always for the good once all is said and done. Sometimes it's just change for change's sake, or worse .... for improvement in someone's pocketbook due to us eventual users following along like lemmings. Thank goodness for lawyers.
