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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie

The Tragic Crash of Flight AF447 Shows the Unlikely but Catastrophic Consequences of Automation

Sure, but that's like me saying plastic bags cause suffocation. I can produce examples of tragedy, but that isn't a harbinger of a looming epidemic. Despite the fact that automated systems make pilots worse at flying, there is still a net benefit to using them.

We don't base whether to use something on the worst possible outcome imaginable, we base it on the likely benefits vs the calculated problems (or at least we should, I still don't know why TSA is around).