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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by nradov on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:00AM (#20213830)
Perhaps I'm missing something but how could the Dragon capsule automation handle something like the emergency that occurred during the Gemini 8 mission? Without manual control by the astronauts it could have turned into a real disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_8#Emergency

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by ceejayoz on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:08AM (#20213915)
Computing and testing has come a long way since the Gemini days. We now have aircraft (particularly military fighters) that are literally uncontrollable without the computers.
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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by nradov on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:17PM (#20214728)
Those control systems only work within certain preprogrammed constraints. They are generally incapable of handling unexpected situations outside of the design limits.

Computerized fly by wire systems still depend on a pilot in the loop, especially in the case of a mechanical failure.

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Re:Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles by T-A on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @12:46PM (#20224899)
So let’s say the airplane gets damaged, and one of the flight controls is no longer available. A legacy airplane would still try to use that surface because it doesn’t know any better. The F-35 digital flight control systems will say, “That surface isn’t doing much for me anymore, so I’m going to have to compensate by using some other things. Maybe I’ll have to move them a little bit more to get the same effect because the pilot still wants to turn left.”

https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/f-35-faces-mos...

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