I think truckers have significant UXUI AND regulation on how long they can drive.
The Author does a good job oh highlighting the issues around UXUI that have not been analysed enough anywhere else and also raises the other issues which have been reported on.
> "first and only public source of real design criticism"
> "Add inexperience, insufficient training, and lack of sleep to the situation and you have a recipe for disaster"
"Before going any further, I want to make it clear that I am just a civilian piecing together this story from whatever information I can glean from the internet."
But then I read few comments on navy systemic sleep depravation...
And how air force solved this 60-70 years ago.
And how some peoples says UX problem is not a problem becouse sleep is a problem (and there are contemposomething evidences of other problems) and obviously two or more of them can't compound simultaneously ! /s
Just want to add: if there is so basic problem with working conditions then there obviously are much more human (and not only) problems in that navy force. Seems quite identical to what Russia is demonstrating in last years and in case of conflict results will be identical - a lot of lost american lives for stupid reasons. Just pointing obviousness.
7th Fleet's issues are well known, but not necessarily outside the community of those of us who lived them.
The extreme sleep deprivation doesn’t really conflict with the author’s point that better UI could have avoided this. Better sleep could have too.