Isn’t there a plane whose autopilot famously keeps trying to crash into the ground. The general advice is to just not let it do that, well it looks like it’s about to crash into the ground, pull up instead.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I use autopilot all the time on my boat. No way in hell I’d trust it in a car. They all occasionally get suicidal. Mine likes to lull you into a sense of false security, then take a sharp turn into a channel marker or cargo ship at the last second.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The Being 787 Max did that when the sensor got faulty and there was no redundancy for the sensor’s because that was in an optional addon package
mbtrhcs@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Even worse, the pilots and the airlines didn’t even know the sensor or associated software control existed.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
All the other answers here are wrong. It was the Boeing 737-Max.
They fit bigger, more fuel efficient engines on it that changed the flight characteristics, compared to previous 737s. And so rather than have pilots recertify on this as a new model (lots of flight hours, can’t switch back), they designed software to basically make the aircraft seem to behave like the old model.
And so a bug in the cheaper version of the software, combined with a faulty sensor, would cause the software to take over and try to override the pilots and dive downward instead of pulling up. Two crashes happened within 5 months, to aircraft that were pretty much brand new.
It was grounded for a while as Boeing fixed the software and hardware issues, and, more importantly, updated all the training and reference materials for pilots so that they were aware of this basically secret setting that could kill everyone.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Pretty sure that’s the Boeing 777 and they discovered that after a crash off Brazil.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
They have auto pilot on boats? I never even thought about that existing. Makes sense, just never heard of it until just now!
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They’ve had it forever. Tie a rope to the wheel. Presto. Autopilot.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
That’s not how boats (ouside of hollywood) work, tho
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
They’ve technically had autopilots for over a century, the first one was the oil tanker J.A Moffett in 1920. Though the main purpose of it is to keep the vessel going dead straight as otherwise wind and currents turn it, so using modern car terms I think it would be more accurate to say they have lane assist? Commercial ones can often do waypoint navigation, following a set route on a map, but I don’t think that’s very common on personal vessels.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s similar to commercial airliners right?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Exactly. My car doesn’t have AP, but it does have a shed load of sensors and sometimes it just freaks out about stuff being too close to car for no discernible reason. Really freaks me out as I’m like what you see bro we just driving down the motorway.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
For mine, it’s the radar seeing the retro-reflective stripes on utility poles being brighter than it expects.