MyQul
Chairman of the Bored
Aircraft are flown by computers once in the sky!
Pilots are there simply to take off and land the thing
So pilots still do a bit of the work. Planes can't be 100% automated?
Aircraft are flown by computers once in the sky!
Pilots are there simply to take off and land the thing
So pilots still do a bit of the work. Planes can't be 100% automated?
Here is one scenario - one crew free ship sailing along when the computer malfunctions an starts dumping fuel causing a massive oil slick. In turn that injures and kills sea life and sea birds - all of which make up the natural eco-system. Some of which could be endangered species. A top class programmer somewhere manages to over-write the error and switch the computer off. Another ship then has to go and rescue the first one - double the pollution. Marine biologists, teams of clear-up experts, etc all then have to get to the spill - treble the pollution - let alone the suffering to thee wildlife affected. Yes, I know its all very dramatic - and all very possible. I shall step down off my very green high horse now, but mankinds greed has already destroyed so much of this planet - it seems like we (humans) will never learn.
Aircraft are flown by computers once in the sky!
Pilots are there simply to take off and land the thing
I would like to know how insurance works with driverless cars and the implications and liability as to who is responsible when sensors become dirty and stop working and cars start killing people after a year or two of use and things break as they do in anything that is shaken and bounced around on british potholed roads.
Didn't hear about that. This kind of thing has been happening for hundreds of years with ships. How can it happen in the 21st century? I boggles the mind
That was the main narrative of the article to be honest. How does a vessel that big stray into a countries waters and not get noticed? Maybe a computer watching the horizon?
It also mentioned the amount of ships and small vessels that wash up with dead bodies aboard in Japan. Widely believed to be people escaping north Korea
So pilots still do a bit of the work. Planes can't be 100% automated?
I have spent a lot of time at sea. We had "autopilot" back in the 1970s. With a bit of luck, it kept you on your preferred heading. If the sea cut up rough, it got foxed. You could dial in preferences for "rudder" (how much, and how quickly, the ship's rudder was turned) - and also "counter-rudder" (basically, guessing how quickly and how much to add an opposite "tweak" so that the boat didn't over-compensate & veer well off course). If the sea was pretty calm, it would work most of the time. But, clearly, that's not good enough - so you had to have someone watching it's performance the whole time - so it was effectively useless.
Maybe things have improved - I'm sure they will have done. But, I reckon a ship's autopilot will be fine for a supertanker. For a 10m fishing boat, no way. Give me a guy who knows the handling characteristics of his own boat - and also his own sea (fetch, swell, currents, shoals & how they disturb things). No computer yet devised is going to come remotely close to handling a wee boat in a stiff wind-over-tide situation where keeping the boat head-to wind might be critical.
Radar only works by line of sight, so unless a ship actually saw it then it'd go unnoticed. And with loads of ships on the sea, unless it was actually in your way and not moving causing you to call it on the radio it was probably ignored by anyone who did spot it.And how could it wander so close without being spotted by radar etc
Didn't hear about that. This kind of thing has been happening for hundreds of years with ships. How can it happen in the 21st century? I boggles the mind
I would like to know how insurance works with driverless cars and the implications and liability as to who is responsible when sensors become dirty and stop working and cars start killing people after a year or two of use and things break as they do in anything that is shaken and bounced around on british potholed roads.
Personally i hope somebody wakes up and realises how ridiculous driverless anything really is before the first person in history is killed by one. it could be YOU
It sure will, i saw a lone cyclist exercising his legal right to ride on a main road at 9.00am whilst traffic behind the idiot was brought to a crawl for over 2 miles behind him.
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