From the very first line of that article:
> The FAA has reassured the public and airlines that SMART only suggests routes and doesn't affect air safety.
Sure, but the tool needs to get information from the communication systems, and if it's badly written maybe it could overload some system components.
That's just a scenario off the top of my head, it could be a lot of stuff. Plugging something new into an old, complicated system isn't risk free.
That would make me feel better if we could trust a damn word from this administration and I wasn’t on a plane waiting to land.
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Until it got out of its sandbox…
If it's working correctly, anyway