Sheridan and Verplank's 10 Levels of Automation of decision and action selection 16.422 Automation Automation Description Level The computer offers no assistance human must take all decision and actions The computer offers a complete set of decision/action alternatives, or narrows the selection down to a few or 23456789 suggests one alternative, and executes that suggestion if the human approves, or lows the human a restricted time to veto before automatic execution, or executes automatically, then necessarily informs humans, and informs the human only if asked,or informs the human only if it, the computer, decides to 10 The computer decides everything and acts autonomously, ignoring the humanSheridan and Verplank’s 10 Levels of Automation of Decision and Action Selection 16.422 Automation Level Automation Description 1 The computer offers no assistance: human must take all decision and actions. 2 The computer offers a complete set of decision/action alternatives, or 3 narrows the selection down to a few, or 4 suggests one alternative, and 5 executes that suggestion if the human approves, or 6 allows the human a restricted time to veto before automatic execution, or 7 executes automatically, then necessarily informs humans, and 8 informs the human only if asked, or 9 informs the human only if it, the computer, decides to. 10 The computer decides everything and acts autonomously, ignoring the human