Who will be onboard to push the reset button when the computer that controls the whole mess blue-screens?
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>>Who will be onboard to push the reset button when the computer that controls the whole mess blue-screens?<<
Who indeed, Bender?
They will likely have one well paid tech aboard the ship for emergencies such as that.
Big diesel engines are very reliable.
Think of being on a shipwreak in the middle of the pacific, and watching automated ships pass you by...
OK so they need a crew of one, ha ha
Help will arrive eventually?
How about expending the money necessary to recruit and train necessary crews? In the long run it would likely be less expensive than needing to be constantly paying robotics maintenance/repair crews on top of all the rest of needed engineering maintenance that's likely to be unavoidable thus ongoing, regardless if bridge crews can be reduced to near elimination.