George an interesting read and made me wonder if I can claim watching old Sci-Fi movies and reading my books as CPD. Not being an expert in this area, I wonder how much more safe a completely automatic personal transport device would have to be over a human controlled one. to be acceptable. I also wonder at what point a human becomes so stale that no matter how skilled they were to start with they have lost the ability to deal with the routine, let alone an emergency - thinking of emergencies should there be regular testing of the fall back system - ie the human
we will probably carry on regardless, until something goes wrong, then we will say something must be done and fix the patch the problem at great expense - rather like the early days of the railways - see Red for Danger by LTC Rolt
Another interesting read. It is interesting the generational difference in the response to automation failure. The classic example for me was the airliner over Germany that had the wrong co-ordinates programmed in to the auto-pilot , so it took a left rather than a right turn. While the young co-pilot reacted by typing away at the touch screen and battling the various systems, the older pilot, switched the auto-pilot off and swung the plane through 180 degrees on to what he knew was roughly the right track.....then he joined the battle with the systems.
I was going to segue into aviation and 737 max but was running out of space. I think rail and automotive probably have a lot to learn from aviation regardless.
George an interesting read and made me wonder if I can claim watching old Sci-Fi movies and reading my books as CPD. Not being an expert in this area, I wonder how much more safe a completely automatic personal transport device would have to be over a human controlled one. to be acceptable. I also wonder at what point a human becomes so stale that no matter how skilled they were to start with they have lost the ability to deal with the routine, let alone an emergency - thinking of emergencies should there be regular testing of the fall back system - ie the human
Exactly Richard. My concern is that we drift there unconsciously, and without adequate foresight or planning….
we will probably carry on regardless, until something goes wrong, then we will say something must be done and fix the patch the problem at great expense - rather like the early days of the railways - see Red for Danger by LTC Rolt
Another interesting read. It is interesting the generational difference in the response to automation failure. The classic example for me was the airliner over Germany that had the wrong co-ordinates programmed in to the auto-pilot , so it took a left rather than a right turn. While the young co-pilot reacted by typing away at the touch screen and battling the various systems, the older pilot, switched the auto-pilot off and swung the plane through 180 degrees on to what he knew was roughly the right track.....then he joined the battle with the systems.
I was going to segue into aviation and 737 max but was running out of space. I think rail and automotive probably have a lot to learn from aviation regardless.