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Re:MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards by fwip on Monday June 24, 2019 @11:41AM (#20264631)
Oh, for sure. The person I replied to made it sound like it was always a bad thing (to have a computer in charge), though, and that's certainly not the case.
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Re:MCAS: How 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards by magduf on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:15PM (#20265882)
Having a computer in charge works fine when the computer is designed correctly, with lots of redundancy and the pilots are trained to understand how it works.

This isn't what Boeing did.

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