>If a passenger aircraft has an autopilot problem that causes a crash, do you blame the manufacturer or the pilots? The pilots are always supervising the plane,

>If a passenger aircraft has an autopilot problem that causes a crash, do you blame the manufacturer or the pilots? The pilots are always supervising the plane, and it's not autonomous, right? I actually agree with you, but this is not a good point. In many cases (not all, but many) pilots are definitely partly to blame for an auto-pilot failure causing a crash, as they operate on the assumption that there are many fail-safes, and the pilot is definitely one of them. A Tesla having a failure and a driver reacting to it is very similar to the pilot acting as a fail safe to a malfunctioning auto-pilot which definitely happens. Where it falls down, is that drivers are not a trained, responsible part of the fail-safes (in my view), you can't rely on them paying attention and reacting in time, partly as they aren't paid professionals with simulator training, and partly because they don't have the 30,000ft of airspace buffer to recover from and clear airspace.