All movies are contrivances that require the suspension of disbelief. :-)

However, I been designing and creating automated systems for decades and inevitably there are unanticipated corner cases that always seem to show up. Avionics systems development is notoriously slow because human lives are at stake and even with all of the levels of automation there the designers still make the provision for a human to be at the controls for unanticipated situations. Even in the Far Future© I would be hesitant to forego a skeleton crew on a vessel carrying living beings in stasis. :-)

> On Jan 10, 2017, at 3:13 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton <xxxxxx@vindaloo.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 02:23:09PM -0800, Chuck McKnight wrote:
>>   I dunno, having just watched Passengers I was reminded of the
>>   importance of a skeleton crew to handle unforeseen emergencies that the
>>   AI couldn’t.  ;-)
>>
>
> In the movies human beings always solve the problem in the nick of
> time. It makes for a good story but more frequently than not, the "AI"
> that can't handle an unforseen emergency is a contrivance of the plot.
>
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