L1011, the first truly automated wide body airplane in commercial service...
Rudder shifts to parallel operation (IE: rudder pedals move upon inputs from the APFD system(s), once automatic approach/land track (autoland) is established.
Keeps the pilots IN the loop.
Fail operational.
TriStar,
still (to this very day) to which others are compared.
IE: the GOLD standard.
NB.
Must be experienced to be believed.
Lockheed, unsurpassed in automatic ops.
Having said this, 'others' have 'caught up'.
Then, one wonders...what has taken them so long?
