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Planes aren't flown by people anymore. Is Air Travel unsafe?

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by Matthew Ellard (Posted Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:15 am)
Rob Lister wrote:When the tower tells the computer to go left, it goes left. When the tower is talking to a human, it has to issue a secondary command: "Your other left, dumbass."
This was a specific episode in Air Crash Investigations. Air Traffic Controllers are not allowed to use the words "left" or "right" for exactly the reasons you offered.

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