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by anonymars
265 days ago
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Yeah, it's a tricky problem to solve, but other design decisions exacerbate it too, like the lack of visual or tactile feedback in the controls. I was thinking of something similar to XL Airways Germany 888T. I was trying to find it and came across this thread making a similar comparison so I'll link that:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/comments/18ks9nl/p... But I think there was some other example with an engine asymmetry (an autothrottle issue?) that the autopilot was fighting with bank, and eventually it exceeded the bank limit and dumped a basically uncontrollable aircraft in the pilots' lap. It would have been more obvious if you were seeing the yoke bank more and more. (Though it looks like this was China Airlines 006, a 747SP, which contradicts that thought.) I agree that we can make the situation less abrupt for cars in some cases (though people will probably get annoyed by the car bugging them for everything going on) |
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> "In trying to explain why Ho never took this critical step and subsequently failed to notice the plane’s increasing bank, the NTSB looked at two areas: fatigue, and overreliance on automation. Regarding the latter, investigators noted that during cruise flight, the job of a Boeing 747 pilot is to monitor the automation, not to fly the airplane. Studies have shown that humans are naturally poor monitors of automation, because it’s boring and does not actively engage our brains and bodies. As a result, when something goes wrong, the brain has to “wake up” before it can assess the situation and take corrective action. Therefore, when flying on autopilot pilots have increased reaction times to unexpected events, as opposed to flying manually, when a sudden change in the state of the aircraft can be instinctively assessed using physical cues transmitted via the control column."
So who knows what we can do. I've definitely experienced this to varying degrees with the fancier cruise controls (e.g. "Autopilot"). It's one thing to just take pressure off the gas and/or steering wheel, but another entirely when you aren't actively "driving the car" at full attention anymore.