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No you have it the wrong way around.

A co-pilot is equal to a pilot.

An autopilot automates just some functions of piloting.




That’s my point: what happens to be the case in actual aviation is in some sense the opposite of the words‘ connotations. So, they’re very misleading terms. Which becomes problematic when marketing a powerful, but limited technology to the mass market.




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