ABSTRACT
In aviation, accidents and incidents are followed up and investigated much more thoroughly than in any other industry. This is why the aviation industry should call the attention from other industries when it comes to draw experiences from the consequences of combining highly automated systems with human operators. Based on examples from aviation the paper transfers experience from modern aircraft to highly automated machines in mining and tunneling and gives suggestions to the engineers and developers mainly proposing them to avoid implementing automation which can bypass and/or distract the human control in a complex situation where a human brain must interact with advanced computer programming, instead of taking over full and direct control in order to solve an emergency situation.
