Tesla’s recall of over two million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada is meant to address driver overreliance on the semi-autonomous Autopilot feature.
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The promise of self-driving cars remains unfulfilled, as the technology still requires drivers to co-pilot the vehicles to avoid collisions.
Tesla crashes and the investigations that follow generate a lot of headlines, but the dangers of automotive automation are industrywide. The common denominator is the human behind the wheel.
The promise of self-driving cars hasn’t materialized, and we’re no closer to them becoming a reality.
The 737 Max is the best-selling airliner ever. But two have crashed in five months, killing 346, damaging Boeing’s future and raising questions about the increasing sophistication of cockpit technology.
Airplanes could be safer with technology at the helm. A key sticking point is human opinion.
In the cockpit of an aircraft, the hierarchy between captain and co-pilot is strictly respected. At the risk, sometimes, of poor decision-making.
Self-driving cars and drones have some lessons to learn from the experience of ships and planes in switching to autopilot.
More tasks are being given over to automation, from autopilots in transport to medical diagnosis. But humans are a poor backup for automation, especially when the automation goes wrong.
Experts in the field of human factors – how people interact with machines – warn that “self-driving” cars need to be more of a cooperative effort between human driver and tech than the hype would suggest.
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Associate Professor, Human Systems Labs, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Lafayette College
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
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Lecturer in Management, Yale University
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Business Professor, Neoma Business School
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Research Psychologist, NASA
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Chercheure en Facteur Humain & Neurosciences Sociales, ISAE-SUPAERO
