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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by nomadiccoder on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:23PM (#17812299)
The profit can be in reducing errors, being better than human control, etc. which can reduce time spent on the line
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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:52PM (#17814172)
At the cost of turning every automation problem into a worst case disaster.

Until the technology is good enough for taking the pilot away, it's not a gain.

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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by pathseeker on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @06:16PM (#17814323)
>Until the technology is good enough for taking the pilot away, it's not a gain.

If that were true modern airlines wouldn't have autopilot.

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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by marcosdumay on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:43AM (#17819494)
Airplane pilots have plenty of time for fixing any problem that may appear mid-flight. It's because of this that airplanes don't have autopilots landing or taking them off.

And by the way, there's an ongoing discussion on airplane groups about all the new failure modes created by the autopilot-pilot interface. It creates plenty of problems.

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Re:What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power... by chrischen on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:16PM (#17814749)
Modern anything wouldn’t have anything.
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