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He may be right for the state of what has actually been wired up in today’s cockpits, but conceptually I don’t see why you couldn’t fully automate a plane. Good luck finding paying customers to board such a plane.
I dunno, I'd trust automation from Airbus more than a low-payed over-worked low trained pilot from a low cost no-non European carrier.
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My car is only five years old but already has two sensors that have gone bad in the engine. Neither of them are vital and everything works great despite the occasional check engine light. Redundancy. It's a time intensive process to pop the head off and replace sensors. Nobody wants to pay their mechanic $100 an hour if they can avoid it. I can't even imagine a sensor failure having zero redundancy, much less changin…
Failed sensors can lead to premature failure of various components, especially catalytic converters: http://ricksfreeautorepairadvice.com/causes-catalytic-conver... Don't put off a $150 job and cost yourself a $2k job. Most sensor replacements don't require removing the cylinder heads.
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My car is only five years old but already has two sensors that have gone bad in the engine. Neither of them are vital and everything works great despite the occasional check engine light. Redundancy. It's a time intensive process to pop the head off and replace sensors. Nobody wants to pay their mechanic $100 an hour if they can avoid it. I can't even imagine a sensor failure having zero redundancy, much less changin…
"...everything works great despite the occasional check engine light..." that may make you feel better but it's not true. The life and efficiency of your engine is being reduced. What year, make, model are you driving? When you sell it do you plan on telling the next owner that you drove it religiously with the check engine light on?