Postby bob turner » Tue May 30, 2017 10:12 pm
I of course know nothing about Amtrak locomotives or driverless cars, but I do know about modern airliners. Once in a while they do stuff a pilot would find objectionable. Believe it or not, a computer flew an airliner into a mountain in South America, with qualified pilots asking "why is it doing that?"
Once each four day sequence I would set up for an "auto land." Every now and then the computer would say "you got it, Captain!" Happened once in the flare! That is seconds before the wheels touch!