<i>&gt;While planes have become so, so, so much safer because of all this automation, pilots uncertainty regarding autopilot functioning is a major concern nowadays, and the reason for several accidents.</i><p>If % of accidents caused by pilot interference on a working system &gt; % of accidents caused by system malfunctioning and pilot ignoring it: people will still be against not allowing pilots to interfere. Even when it causes more accidents...<p>There&#x27;s something about humans trusting humans more than machines that I don&#x27;t fully understand. Systems can make mistakes but the amount of <i>human</i> mistakes is often exponentially greater to a degree of absurdity that humans are even trusted at all and yet people will side with the human over the machine.<p>Humans will always want human oversight - even when that oversight does more harm than good once automation reaches a certain threshold...<p>Special note: I&#x27;m not aware of avionics and the data on pilot interference w&#x2F; the system vs failure of pilot to intervene. So maybe this example doesn&#x27;t hold very well for avionics...