I am completely mind-boggled that people even attempt to compare planes with cars... and consistently come back to the wording "Autopilot" and somehow driver is ultimately responsible is a strange concept.



Someone made a comment some posts back that trying to explain to FAA you crash because autopilot failed.



And before someone jumps out and say... in an aircraft autopilot certification blah blah blah nonsense and time for pilot to react blah blah blah... It somehow gives me the feeling that these people have never driven a car before...



When you encounter an emergency or sticky situation on the road, were you given any amount of seconds to react but as instant as humanly possible? So it is mind-boggling that people expect time for reaction on an automobile autopilot system... cos personally even when the car is fully capable of driving itself without any human intervention... I still wouldn't expect the car to warn me of an emergency and I would have 7-10seconds to react... in the case of a car... I would just expect that it will either have to deal with it on it's own or minimize any casualties.

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