>>xkcd
This is my chief complaint about sci-fi movies. There is NO scenario in which "switching to manual" is going to save you in the robot apocalypse or while flying your faster-than-light rocket fighter.
I went through a period of reading a lot of old Asimov and Clarke and remember one book where, as they are preparing to jump to hyper-light speed, the navigator pulls out his ephemeris and slide rule to plot the course. FTL-drive was completely believable. A computer that would fit inside a spaceship and calculate trajectories was, of course, unimaginable. And these were books from the late 1950s and early 1960s when we were less than a decade from just such a computer.
PS - the hover text is usually a followup joke. This time, it isn't.