Upon further reflection, I think some shit pilots still manage to crash the plane even when something <i>IS</i> a textbook simulator issue.<p>That shorting of the runway in San Fran? Every warning worked as intended except the pilot. The prop plane that went down in Taiwan? Pilot shut down the wrong engine.<p>Basically if we&#x27;re talking about a person being unable to actually handle the needs of modern piloting - mode confusion as it were - then I&#x27;m suspicious that they aren&#x27;t very good pilots in the first place. This is where I see the correlative in cars.<p>Just because lane-alert and auto cruise control can help an inattentive driver stay out of a crash doesn&#x27;t mean the systems can&#x27;t be compromised by a poor operator. That&#x27;s kind of my thought process.