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You arrive at the airport and get checked in and are about to board when you look out of the window and see the plane is a 737 MAX. Would you get on it?
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I don't care what assurances the CEO gives I want the pilot to be able to turn the software off if he needs to. 300+ people are dead because of poor software and an increasing arrogant belief that software is fool proof. I've worked all my life in software and there is no way I'd get on one of these.
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I don't care what assurances the CEO gives I want the pilot to be able to turn the software off if he needs to. 300+ people are dead because of poor software and an increasing arrogant belief that software is fool proof. I've worked all my life in software and there is no way I'd get on one of these.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.baz: "Just like driverless cars tora ?" - yes, obviously they'll be killing less people at a time but same principle.
"Are you talking about all software and can the software be turned off in other planes ? " - I believe in most planes autopilot can be turned off and cannot override the pilot, currently, though "developments" are worrying, I'd rather have Denzil Washington Plastered flying me than that software. Autopilot is useful for 99% of the time but there are times when human intuition is needed.
"Are you talking about all software and can the software be turned off in other planes ? " - I believe in most planes autopilot can be turned off and cannot override the pilot, currently, though "developments" are worrying, I'd rather have Denzil Washington Plastered flying me than that software. Autopilot is useful for 99% of the time but there are times when human intuition is needed.
baz: "So , am i correct in saying that the pilots couldn't turn it off , when they realised they were in trouble" - yes the plane believed it was stalling and kept dropping the nose, the pilots repeatedly tried to raise it but the software overrode them. Must have been a terror filled time, knowing that some software written some time ago was going to kill them. This really was death by software. .... I've worked in software my working life, fortunately nothing I programmed causes death. They'll know what went wrong by now they'll have the code in question and know why it did what it did and who wrote it. Some poor programmer on not much will be punishing himself somewhere.
The way I understand it is that shortly after take-off the plane is in, obviously, a nose-high attitude in order to reach cruising altitude. Now the computer "thinks" that because of this, the plane is going to reach a stalling speed and forces the nose down, which is not a good thing to happen shortly after taking off, and the pilots cannot resume the airplane's nose-up position.
This is a good overview https:/ /www.vo x.com/b usiness -and-fi nance/2 019/3/2 9/18281 270/737 -max-fa a-scand al-expl ained
For those who want to know if the airline they will be boarding is a 737 Max
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