No flame wars, just honest inputs
No problem, Doze. I feel we both appreciate the opportunity to exchange opinions and lifetime experiences regarding engineering. I was fortunate to be on both ends of the process as an end user and a designer/tester on the other end.
My main concern is we seem to be assigning more and more "operation" to the machines at the expense of human judgement and decision-making and experience. How do we "train" a machine to handle an event that has not been anticipated by the design engineer? And worse, how do we design a machine to anticipate unusual human actions and "protect" them ( God, how I hate that term, and prefer "limit")
Gotta think about this more, so gone for now......