The ship has diesel electric propulsion and is extremely manoeuvrable, and is therefore ideal for her role in maintaining the automatic navigation buoys in Irish waters.
No automatic navigation.
Well aware that most modern vessels possessed some means of automatic navigation, the old man concluded that a man resorting to this trick knew next to nothing of boating.
Another would put the plane on automatic navigation.
Finally, the Progress series of unmanned cargo ships for the Salyut and Mir space laboratories used the automatic navigation and docking mechanism (but not the re-entry capsule) of Soyuz.
All the trains run without a driver and are based on automatic navigation.
Apparently there was automatic navigation and automated obstacle avoidance as well, because occasionally Kirk felt a change in direction when no one was at the controls.
"Commander ... I assumed you would rig that vessel for high speed on automatic navigation and ... that you would beam back."
If I'm right then the hub wreckage should contain the remains of just one propulsion unit and one section which contained the automatic navigation and sensor equip-ment.
The aircraft had excellent accuracy with the aid of an automatic electronic navigation and weapons delivery system.