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I completely agree that car failures are almost always less severe than aircraft. However, to play devil's advocate, pilots have much more stringent training requirements and that's a relevant point to the MAX situation. I hope I didn't come across that I was trying to equate the two in terms of criticality, just trying to point out a couple counter examples to statements about car software not being critical. The details of the Honda case seem even more critical than the GM one.

I was estimating at $100 per fix (since it's just the labor cost of software). At roughly $120 per labor hour multiplied by 1MM vehicles is where I came up with the nine figure mark. At $1k per fix, it would be in the 10 digits. Regardless, it was overshot and I corrected it with the details in a reply (since I couldn't edit the original). It only comes in at 0.5 hours per fix. Not chump change but the decision to fix it may also have been influenced by the Toyota accelerator and GM ignition recalls that got a lot of press.