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Re:California passes law banning Tesla from calling software... by frosted-flakes on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:25PM (#34121755)
It's a different environment. Astronauts are passengers, not drivers, and they rarely need to make sudden actions while multi-tasking the way car drivers do. If they made all-glass cockpits for fighter jets I would agree with you, but they don't.
Re:California passes law banning Tesla from calling software... by bumby on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:49PM (#34121949)
This isn’t a very accurate take, anymore than an airline pilot is a passenger. There’s an reason why the first astronauts to fly in it were military pilots. Dragon has a manual mode that requires an astronaut to control the vehicle for safety reasons. I’m not aware of any human-rated NASA software that doesn’t also require a human in the loop to meet the required safety thresholds.