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by Mawr 1063 days ago
> Would an input monitoring and control system like on large airplanes have avoided the crash?

Not at all, for example Airbus aircraft "helpfully" average out the inputs. There's a dual input warning, but warnings are weak at preventing accidents.

Some instances where the awful UX around the handling of dual input by aircraft contributed to incidents:

- https://youtu.be/6tIVu0Dpc2o?t=1754

- https://youtu.be/V2mMs-h4qGE?t=949

- https://youtu.be/Dl-Fl66Jfao?t=977

- https://youtu.be/tXGET4-N9FA?t=983

- https://youtu.be/e5AGHEUxLME?t=2259 & https://youtu.be/e5AGHEUxLME?t=2876

IMO, this is a critical design flaw with all current aircraft that should be addressed ASAP but what do I know :)

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True, though at least they are not physically linked and you can disable the averaging.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-stick