Alex's mission to talk to everyone with a background in aviation and human-machine interfaces, Dr Missy Cummings joins the show to talk automation, safety and Tesla Autopilot. One of the first women fighter pilots, a former MIT Associate Professor and current Professor at Duke University's schools of Engineering and Brain Sciences, as well as the director of Duke's Humans and Autonomy Laboratory. Her thoughtful criticisms of "semi-autonomous" technology are informed by decades of academic research and deep experience with aviation automation, and they make for a memorable episode of The Autonocast.