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Old 3rd Dec 2014, 18:13
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Have a think of this...

Right now, we can hear of a crash involving aircraft "A" or " B" and turn up at the airport next day looking at lines of "A" and "B" on the ramp and still willingly get in and fly (in) them.

Well, the crash was the pilots fault, and these will have different pilots so that's ok, isn't it? worst case, they'll look at the reasons for the crash and try not to make the same mistake themselves.


Step forward into the future. Now, when the airline rep says step up and fly, who will there be to blame for the crash yesterday? Are today's planes flying on Version 3.1 or 3.1.1? And what version was on the one that crashed? Until they can get round this issue, only the deluded fools who designed the system will be brave enough to fly on it.

Also, Google car. It's managed 170,000 miles of safe driving, but only on the roads around their headquarters that are in it's very complex mapping system. Put a set of temporary traffic lights up and it grinds to a halt. The AI is so far off I'll dead and gone before it ever comes down my high street.
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