autopilot

If there had been an autopilot, most likely the autopilot would have pressed the button at the right time while he was looking at something else.

If the pilot thinks the button needs pushing, they're not going to wait til after the crash to see if the autopilot is working.

Airplanes on autopilot usually have many minutes and several hundred miles worth of buffer before something bad happens.

This and the Silverlight thing made me wonder if this was a zombie project running on autopilot.

And then you get an autopilot that under abnormal conditions doesn't realize it should deploy the parachute...

They spend so much time on autopilot that they become less and less skilled at manual flying.

Almost everything an autopilot should do should have a button and a switch for humans.

The switch prevents the autopilot from doing it, the button makes it happen.

My understanding is that airline pilots only use autopilot when at cruising altitude.

Anything that that's complex and life or death should be autopilot driven.

Has he actually been awake for 76 hours straight or is there an autopilot feature he can enable to get a few micronaps in?

I a totally automated system is BAD as people put their fiances on autopilot..

Pilot thinks "I think it's time to push the button." Autopilot doesn't push button.

Even Elon Musk's most ambitious projections for "autopilot" are a car that can drive itself 90 - 95% of the time but will require an alert, licensed driver to take over if necessary.

Not at all: Harvard got used to fantastic returns in an unusual period ("genius is a rising market"), got into spending patterns that depended on this continuing (what this article focuses on), too many people at Harvard got envious of the people making these returns and forced them out, then investing was left on autopilot and they crashed in what looks to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.