• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    10 months ago

    To probably 90% of people “autopilot” means “drive automatically”.

    Based on what?

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      10 months ago

      Based on my usage and understanding of the word being a lay person.

      I’m an engineer myself, sometimes there are words that you have to be cognizant of the differences in meaning to other engineers vs lay people or even engineers in other fields. Some words are heavily overloaded, and “autopilot” is kinda one of them (others being “domain”, “node”, “artificial intelligence”, etc.).