• anlumo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The term autopilot comes from aviation, where the only kind of problem resolution an autopilot does is turning itself off.

    Other than that, it just flies from checkpoint to checkpoint.

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      7 months ago

      If only we could implement similar testing protocols to the aviation version to validate it’s safety!