Stay in the Loop

Automation is better now. But will you still be ready when it disappears?

Mission

You supervise an automated vehicle for 12 rounds. Automation succeeds 95% of the time, but your manual capability falls when you stop practicing. In every round, automation may suddenly become unavailable. If that happens, you must take control yourself.

Goal: finish with the lowest total loss. A failure costs 100 points. Success costs 0.

Use automation now ↔ preserve human backup capability for later

Choose an environment

All other model parameters are identical. Try both conditions.

Round1 / 12

Emergency risk10%

Manual capability88%

Total realized loss0

Emergencies so far0

History

Round	Automation	Capability	Action	Outcome	Loss

Results

Realized loss

Voluntary manual practice

Emergencies

Emergency failures

Final capability

Your voluntary policy vs. dynamic benchmark

	Your policy	Dynamic benchmark
Voluntary manual-practice rounds*
Expected cumulative loss
First-round recommendation

*For your policy, this counts the manual choices you made when automation was available. The benchmark value is the expected number of voluntary manual choices across possible future emergency paths.

Important: realized loss depends on luck. A lower realized loss does not prove that a policy is better. The dynamic benchmark minimizes expected cumulative loss before future emergencies and outcomes are known.

q ↑ ⇒ future backup value ↑ ⇒ optimal manual practice may ↑