Not The Onion

So many thoughts go through my head from the picture and article.

• Why go with wireless? If you're insistent on a controller, wouldn't wired make more sense purely for reliability? I'm not an engineer, but I would easily bet that Logitech didn't design the controller with that environment in mind. Also, did they pack extra batteries?

• why fully digital? I don't see any backup controls in the picture. What happens if the PC or controller fails?

• is it running off a standard PC? PCs can work but aren't optimal for real time needs like this. I hope they didn't just load up some custom software on a Windows PC and call it a day

• in another article, they said exterior crew bolted them in. This Echoes of Apollo one. Imagine they're just off course and are able to make it to the surface. What a sad way to die if they were so close to semi-safety but ended up suffocating because they couldn't open the hatch.

This is what happens when the Elon Musks of the world are allowed to pretend to be engineers

Regulations (or lack thereof) aside, I would never crawl inside that thing if my life depended on it. I couldn't imagine shelling out stacks of cash to sit inside that tin can. I was shocked when I first saw videos. How could a potential patron look at that and go, "I'm okay with this."

I don't think they're going to locate the wreckage for a long time to come. And I think it's safe to assume that, at this point, there are no survivors.

The image is so perfect..

Do you think it was the controller that failed though? I think something much more catastrophic must have happened.

I used one of those as my daily driver for a while. The ergonomics were murdering my hands. I would not want to have to use one as part of my job.

The article implies that using an off the shelf controller wouldn't pass regulations. What regulation, exactly? This is a fully custom build sub, there's nothing regulation about it, save for things like emergency gear, communications, and the like. But steering control? I very much doubt that.