Re:How Airline Pilots Lost the Basic Skills
by ghaff on Thursday March 10, 2016 @01:40PM
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There's a lot required before they're ready in any case. (How much probably depends a fair bit on where and under what circumstances they're allowed to be on full auto-pilot.) But you're absolutely right on your basic point. And even if they're safer than humans overall, if they have a tendency (even if rarely) to get into serious accidents in which they self-evidently did something dumb (from a human's perspective), that would be a big issue.
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Re:How Airline Pilots Lost the Basic Skills
by mikeash on Thursday March 10, 2016 @01:47PM
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It's interesting to imagine an extreme case. Imagine if self-driving cars were absolutely perfect drivers, except every 100 billion miles the car accelerates to top speed and then drives straight into a bridge support.
Such a car would be immensely safer than what we have now. Would people willingly ride in one?
I think I'm pretty good at rationally weighing the risks, but just imagining this still gives me the willies.