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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by CydeWeys on Sunday June 02, 2019 @10:35AM (#20075692)
Oooof. Well the real lesson there is that unqualified people (especially children) shouldn't be in the cockpit of an airliner at all. Autopilot can't be made smart enough to determine if the person operating the controls actually knows what they're doing, and thus to follow/ignore them as appropriate.
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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by Ntrails on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:03PM (#20077731)
I mean, pick your poison. Either the humans are more reliable or the computers are. Either way is subject to some level of fallibility.
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Re:Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a ... by sean2 on Monday June 03, 2019 @10:21AM (#20083342)
The wikipedia article calls out that the compounding sequence of issues started when autopilot was silently disabled, so the human system was in control when the pilots did not intend it to be.

I think the critical issue in both cases is that the wrong system was in control against the pilots wishes.

So, the pilots can pick my poison based on their training and best judgement (and maybe not put their children in control?).

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