Dead Man's Switch Debate
Comments discuss the need for, implementation of, and failures in dead man's switches, manual overrides, and other fail-safe mechanisms in autonomous or controlled systems, often referencing a specific incident.
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They should put some sort of manual override switch.
They have an emergency mode for a reason...
I would imagine they would have control lockouts as well. Not something super complicated/time consuming to disengage, but something to prefect that exact scenario from happening.
Sounds like they built a dead-man's switch and then broke the process through which the man and the switch communicate.
There should be manual override. What if this happened in-AIR?
Can't you just add a dead mans switch?
Maybe they have a mil-spec fallback mechanism (manual control, maybe?). Would that suffice?
Awesome. What fail safes do you have?
What are you using for a deadman switch?
Yeah, it's pretty clearly a dead man switch.