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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Does the car know the habits of whitetail deer compared to a mailbox like a human does?
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Not just deer, either. Hereabouts there are also wild horses, antelope, open-range cattle, the occasional bear, and various other critters that I haven't personally encountered. All of them have different reactions to oncoming traffic.
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....with autopilot the pilot could pass out and the plane can go to it's destination and land itself just as well as the pilot could.
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Not true. Your basic autopilot system is very much like cruise control: it holds altitude, speed, and heading. What you're perhaps thinking of is an
autoland system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland In fact, there have been cases where a plane's crew was incapacitated due to sudden depressurization, and the plane just continued on the preset course under autopilot until it ran out of fuel. There was one such case a few years ago involving a well-known (to those who follow golf, if not to me) pro golfer.