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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timjet wrote:
For all you nay sayers realize you more than likely have ridden aboard an airplane that self landed that otherwise could not have landed at that airport due to low visibility. I my 34 yrs of airline flying I never had not once an autoland fail.
Apparently you missed this part of my earlier post in this discussion thread - here is the portion of my post related to what you stated above:
"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!!
P.S. We don't fly ... not due to lack of knowledge of the statstics about the millions of safe miles people fly ... but due to full knowledge of the seriousness of the consequences when one of the multitude of things that can go wrong does go wrong. We'll take our chances at 55 MPH on the ground in an RV instead of at 550 MPH a long way from the ground in a plane.
