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You probably don't fly manually, just use predefined abort procedure or receive configuration from ground control. It looks humans now are just another cargo and screens are only for non-critical flight information purpose (in other case I cannot see how they would get away with touchscreen only and software running on Chromium).

It's interesting to wonder whether if Apollo 13 style fault happened, modern ships would be easier to reconfigure and rescue or harder?




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