Re:Tesla Model S Autopilot Features
by ekianjo on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @07:57PM
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No need for theories we know very well what happened there in that flight and its basically the copilots who crashed a perfectly fly worthy planed.
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There is no basically in an aircraft accident. If you wish to make such a statement, please explain what actually happened in this flight (icing of the pitot tubes, deactivation of normal flight control law for the fly-by-wire system, flight at night over the ocean and over a storm, stall under the specifications for the stall warning system). It's respectful for the crew.
Re:Tesla Model S Autopilot Features
by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @11:07PM
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There's an old joke about a pilot lost in a deep fog who shouts out the window "Where am I?", hears in response "You're in an airplane!", and immediately realizes that he is over the Microsoft tech support building, because no one else could be so accurate and so useless at the same time.
That's what you're doing here. Saying "the copilots crashed it" teaches us nothing; we need to know why they crashed it, what cues they misunderstood and what skills they lacked, so we can keep it from happening again.