Martin Hotze writes:

On Sun, 28 May 2006 08:35:55 -0400, Bob Noel wrote:

And automated systems make mistakes.

hmm, they work as designed. If somebody programmed a loophole and the
system comes to this point, well. Then there is don't see a mistake. Those
systems don't make any decisions. They do what the programmer told them to
do.

Almost. Automated systems have implementation flaws and design flaws.
But sometimes automated systems are affected by environmental conditions
such as high energy particles (which are not impossible at enroute altitudes).

still: the automated system itself does not make the mistake.

The difference is only important to the accident investigation team
and the lawyers, though. You're just as dead either way.

yeah, I see your point, of course. :-)
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