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> How are we supposed to trust autonomous cars when the smartest engineers on the planet can't automate the condition of not diving a plane into the ground.

Easy: air travel is still safer than car travel by orders of magnitude. Treating an incident like this one is an avoidable tragedy with lessons to learn is important, and thankfully this is changing for car crashes slowly [1], but a single failure of an autonomous system does not mean that it's not at all viable, because the alternative, purely human driving, is clearly a lot worse.

1: https://www.vox.com/2015/7/20/8995151/crash-not-accident