[Year 12 IT Apps] Will Increasing Automation Make Jets Less Safe?

[Mark Kelly]

Including ABS and related technology in cars... !

Timmer-Arends wrote:
> There is a long history of deadly situations involving the Airbus and 
> its fly-by-wire systems. Back in the late '80s early '90s Perry Morrison 
> and Tom Forester were documenting lots of computer failures resulting 
> human injury or death. They argued that computers should not be put in 
> charge of complex situations wherein an error could result in disaster.
> Regards
> Robert T-A
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Anderson, Stuart L
>     <mailto:anderson.stuart.l at edumail.vic.gov.au>
>     *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
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>     *Sent:* Monday, August 03, 2009 9:58 AM
>     *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] Will Increasing Automation Make Jets
>     Less Safe?
> 
>     A creepy article to lead into U4O2
> 
>     *Will Increasing Automation Make Jets Less Safe?*
> 
>     By Gerald Traufetter
> 
>     Computers on board aircraft have made flying safer, but when they encounter errors they can create turmoil. Engineers are pressing ahead with the automation of aircraft, but pilots warn that efforts to computerize jets are going too far and that diminished human control could create dangerous situations.
> 
>     Full article http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,639298,00.html
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>      
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>     - Stuart Anderson
> 
>     Kambr!
>      ya College
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