Germanwings Tragedy: How to protect against mentally ill pilots?

Re:Germanwings Tragedy: How to protect against mentally ill ... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday March 28, 2015 @06:24AM (#9280980)

Ya Get rid of the persons involved...i.e. Self flying planes. It will happen eventually, it is a much easier problem than self driving cars, and there are already planes that can take off and land themselves in certain conditions.

But this isn't really a huge frequent problem, just one that gets a lot of press.

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Re:Germanwings Tragedy: How to protect against mentally ill ... by acqq on Saturday March 28, 2015 @06:57AM (#9281060)

Why stop there? The best way to get rid of persons involved is not flying the passengers.

Until then, having the human pilot capable of overriding the computer is actually a good thing, see danieldk's comment. That the computers should help the humans as much as possible is indisputable, but it's a gradual and hard process to bring the real improvements.

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Re:Germanwings Tragedy: How to protect against mentally ill ... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday March 28, 2015 @06:18PM (#9282956)

In the long term it's ineveitable, juist like self ddiving cars are. Computers are actually very suitable for this.

Today, ya, maybe not yet, but we are definitely close. Flying is a hard job on humans, the hours suck, the job can be very monontomous. The problem isn't that the pilots are evil/bad, just that humans are unsuited to these kinds of tasks. Like driving.

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