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And who can remember our favorite bit of automation: 
In Response To: Wow all those years of watching/reading scifi taught me... ()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDrDUmuUBTo
Of course, the problem is the voice commands for the Sense system requires "French"? (Remember the Clint Eastwood movie about using Russian Commands for the missle defense systems on the fighter jet "he" hijacked :^)))) )
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- Damn, 'French Kiss', our friends boat, lost at Fort Pierce Inlet.
- 'Dock and Go' locked up the onboard computer and couldn't be overridden
- they couldn't turn it off and go manual?
- The Jeaneau computerized system had 18 out of 18 failures in it's similar system.
- I thought you and Ray going to help
- Unbelievable!
- Hate to even suggest this, but my first thought was...
- Bow thruster and AP have same potential
- We cannot realistically expect complex
- they couldn't turn it off and go manual?
- Going to venture a guess... loss of power and not prepared...
- Below decks autopilots
- Me thinks it is a rare situation...
- I saw French Kiss being towed...
- Into the rocks story . .
- 'Dock and Go' locked up the onboard computer and couldn't be overridden