When the autopilot function was invented in 1914, it was a groundbreaking invention. Who would have thought that you would be able to remote control a plane?
It immediately allowed the pilots to focus on other more pressing concerns like watching the weather and the gauges. It freed up resources so that the pilot could think. Eventually, pilots started to trust that the autopilot would always work.
And that became a problem.
Plane crashes started happening which were a direct result of the reliance on autopilot. It even still happens today.
Why do we feel that autopilot is a net benefit? Because it (mostly) works.
The challenge for us now is to choose when to operate in autopilot. If you’re always in autopilot you will have a problem.
Get out of your habits and change the strategy. Autopilot isn’t always good.
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