How does that docking work? Does the pilot have to pilot it in? Is there some kind of AR thing they've got to follow, or is it a completely automatic pilot?
TL;DRDocking is not fully automatic: the pilot requests permission, flies about 99% of the approach using a docking UI to line up, and only the last few meters are automated to ensure exact orientation.
It's not completely automatic. So you communicate to the target ship and they accept your request to dock, because if there was no sort of permission system, you could have anybody just randomly trying to [dock]. But once that's all sorted out, you get a docking UI, which gives you an idea of how far off on each axis and roll you are. You line up all the symbols, you're in the right place, and then the very last few meters, it takes over and automatically guides you in. So you have to do sort of 99% of the flying into it, and it's the very last bit where we have to ensure that you are orientated a very specific way. Think about the Merlin: there is a baked animation sequence to get out of the ship. So if you are five centimeters off to the left, you could end up getting out through the Constellation out the other side. So we have to ensure you're in a very specific position. So that's why there's automatic there.