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New Zealand Navy ship sank off Samoa because autopilot was left on, inquiry (www.theguardian.com)
16 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | hide | past | web | 5 comments | favorite





What engineer builds an autopilot system which cannot be easily override when manually making course adjustments though (or at least respond with a clear warning that the new input was not expected in its current state)

The article seems to go out of the way to not mention the captain or by name.

Sounds remarkably like a number of airliner disasters caused by over-automated and confusing cockpits.

Such as?




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