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Re:Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar by Someone on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:21AM (#12477607)
How do you know you watched for the exception well enough to react fast enough to prevent disaster when it happened?

At ~30k miles, chances are you haven't seen enough exceptions to make a judgment on that.

It is hard to stay focused on jobs that are extremely dull, except for the rare cases where they aren't.

There's tons of research on this because there are many people in that situation (watching radar screens for incoming ICBM's, guarding a facility, luggage screening at an airport, etc)

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Re:Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar by vvanders on Monday September 12, 2016 @12:33PM (#12481126)
Oh, I saw plenty of stuff in those miles where I had to react.

Flying tires, wildlife jumping out. Heck, just yesterday had someone merge into the lane with no signal. Just because I'm not providing steering inputs doesn't mean that I'm not constantly scanning traffic.

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