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by mcrk 316 days ago
I bet most of the prosecution time was spent "explaining" the meaning of autopilot to the jury. Easy money.
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Airplanes have autopilots too but pilots are still sitting there on the controls and have to be paying attention. A brand or technical name doesn't remove responsibility.
This wasn't a plane though, and the driver wasn't a pilot
An airplane using autopilot isn't seconds away from suddenly crashing.