As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.

Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The current SMART roll out should have been nothing but route optimization, if human controllers agreed. OTOH, that’s one hell of a coincidence if that was related.

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      It’s the SMART rollout for sure. The failure point was old analog hardware that couldn’t keep up with the sheer pummeling the AI algorithm was dishing out to accomplish effectively nothing the controllers couldn’t do before.