BigDumbDinosaur wrote:
[color=#000000]Boeing needs to pull their collective heads out of their collective posteriors and get back to being an engineering-driven company that builds high-quality aircraft, instead of a haven for endless bean counters and DEI managers. Otherwise, Airbus will soon be eating their lunch in all aspects of the aerospace business.
Agree 100%
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¹I have a strong prejudice against the use of fly-by-wire in a commercial aircraft. I’ve seen far too many electronic failures caused by trivial situations to ever trust a semiconductor to manipulate primary flight controls. Also, Airbus’ over-reliance on computers to manage all aspects of flight has resulted in some unfortunate situations, e.g., a disastrous air show crash caused by the flight computer “misunderstanding” what the (very experienced) pilot was doing. That computer software written by a code jockey sitting in a cubicle in the relative safety of an office can override a pilot’s actions in abnormal situations because the computer (and, by extension, the code jockey) thinks it’s smarter than an airline captain with thousands of hours of flight experience is, in my opinion, downright crappy design.
Indeed, it's one thing when it's just an annoying software glitch, it's another when a life critical function is on the line. In that case, one should always defer to the human.
Why I'm not crazy about "self driving cars" either.
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That was particularly amusing to me, in that I have tritanomaly, which affects the ability to distinguish colors at the high end of the visible spectrum. Despite that, I can definitely see when an all-white vehicle is in my way. 
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