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Re:Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX baffles some invol... by CaptainZapp on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:16AM (#19561689)
He may be right for the state of what has actually been wired up in today’s cockpits, but conceptually I don’t see why you couldn’t fully automate a plane.

Good luck finding paying customers to board such a plane.

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Re:Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX baffles some invol... by cm2187 on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:41AM (#19561800)
They will probably have lower operating costs. That will be a reason. And when they demonstrated their reliability over time people will stop thinking about it. Pilot error is still the number 1 cause of plane crashes.
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Re:Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX baffles some invol... by ddalex on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:42AM (#19561803)
I dunno, I'd trust automation from Airbus more than a low-payed over-worked low trained pilot from a low cost no-non European carrier.
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Re:Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX baffles some invol... by CaptainZapp on Friday April 05, 2019 @06:38AM (#19581263)
After Boing's major fuck up I'm not sure that this comment will age well.
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