Isn't the Boeing incident a symptom of poor engineering practices? Spaceships by all accounts seem to have similar if not higher levels of computer-controlled overrides to actually make the damn thing fly past Earth's atmosphere. The difference of course being that spaceship software is rigorously tested whereas Boeing was very lax in their implementation so they could rush the plane out the door.
I don't see a problem with the idea of delegating aspects of flight to the computer - just fix the software engineering practices that lead to this tragedy. Please. :)
I don't see a problem with the idea of delegating aspects of flight to the computer - just fix the software engineering practices that lead to this tragedy. Please. :)