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Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster
October 20, 2016 at
06:50 PM
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It's a long article but very interesting. Since it's from a UK newspaper, I figured a lot of the Loungers would not have seen it.
Rest of article:
https://www.theguardian
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We increasingly let computers fly planes and carry out security checks. Driverless cars are next. But is our reliance on automation dangerously diminishing our skills?When a sleepy Marc Dubois walked into the cockpit of his own aeroplane, he was confronted with a scene of confusion. The plane was shaking so violently that it was hard to read the instruments. An alarm was alternating between a chirruping trill and an automated voice: "STALL STALL STALL." His junior co-pilots were at the controls. In a calm tone, Captain Dubois asked: "What's happening?" Co-pilot David Robert's answer was less calm. "We completely lost control of the aeroplane, and we don't understand anything! We tried everything!" The crew were, in fact, in control of the aeroplane. One simple course of action could have ended the crisis they were facing, and they had not tried it. But David Robert was right on one count: he didn't understand what was happening. |
Rest of article:
https://www.theguardian
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Actually, the computer apocalypse was first (for those of us who remember 1999, anyway)
You're right. Go play in traffic.