She also wrote that while "there really isn't something akin to the FAA governing submersible operations, " her company thinks sub manufacturers should offer pilot training to the owners of machine.

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As the passage implies, even something as seemingly simple as an airplane flying in the sky is actually just one part of a large sociotechnical system composed of various human and machine elements, from the pilot and airplane to a series of airports, communication and navigation systems, bureaucracies, regulations, rules and norms of flight, and more.

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The "pilot" controls the aircraft at a safe distance, directing the machine to hover over the water where whales are surfacing.

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