New Zealand Navy ship sank off Samoa because autopilot was left on, inquiry

[pseudolus]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/new-zealand-navy-ship-hmnzs-manawanui-sinking-autopilot-inquiry-ntwnfb

[mgoetzke]

What engineer builds an autopilot system which cannot be easily override when manually making course adjustments though (or at least respond with a clear warning that the new input was not expected in its current state)

[bell-cot]

Sounds remarkably like a number of airliner disasters caused by over-automated and confusing cockpits.

[Jovasa → bell-cot]

Such as?

[cr125rider → Jovasa]

737 MAX 8 disasters

[Jovasa → cr125rider]

Those were because of non-redundant critical sensor and poor communication, not so much because of over-automation.

[underseacables]

The article seems to go out of the way to not mention the captain or by name.

[egberts1 → underseacables]

Because topics like DEI might creep into the carefully crafted narrative and ruin it.

[workingdog → egberts1]

Unless they fit the criteria, we're not supposed to talk about incompetent people in positions of power.