Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by amdavidson on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:36PM (#16622282)

It wasn't but it increasingly is getting to that point. You take off (with fly by wire adjustments from the computer) from Airport A and tell it to fly to Airport B and it can even automatically land there.

Some airlines do not allow pilots to manually fly above 3k feet, nor allow first mates to land manually[0].

0: https://www.wired.com/story/boeing-autonomous-plane-autopilo...

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by Piskvorrr on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:09AM (#16627201)

Which then gets you pilots frobbing the autoland selector, not getting the mode right - and now what, if you have zero practice, having scripted yourself out of it? Now you fly the plane into the runway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

There is a (prevalent) happy path where autopilot and autoland can get you the whole illusion "but the plane flies itself" - but the whole system is built around humans catching and handling all and any exceptions.

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