"Garmin constructed Emergency Autoland by integrating existing building blocks, including navigation technology, synthesized voice and digital autopilots."
Phil Straub describes how Garmin accumulated navigation, speech and autopilot capabilities over many years before recognizing around 2011 that they could be integrated into an autonomous emergency landing system. This is a concrete example of the chapter's TouchGrass argument - an impressive automated capability emerges from physical engineering, integration and accumulated technical work.
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