[bluGill]

Planes have spent nearly 100 years moving from the "cowboy" era with brave "men" risking their lives to the modern era where planes are one of the safest ways to get around. They did they by analyzing every accident and near miss and figuring out how to ensure that doesn't happen again. Car owners resit the idea that they are not perfect even while they do things like use the phone while driving, drink alcohol just before driving tailgate, speed, stop in the crosswalk, and so on. Those are the things that either have been taught in driving ed for decades, or have had large media pushes to raise awareness. Don't get me started counterintuitive on things like the zipper merge which most people think I'm the bad driver for doing. I'll admit that the above is a list of things I know about and attempt to do - I have no idea what else I might be missing.

We now have the technology to have very realistic driving simulators. (I've seen what they give snow plow drivers) We should require drivers spend several days per year in a simulator to make sure that they can do things right in the weird situations. Pilots rarely fly in the worst weather (they will fly above, around or stay on the ground - though they will fly through what looks like bad but isn't - I don't know how to tell the difference), but they get lots of simulator time in the worst case situations.