Well, to continue with the automobile analogy, estimates are [that, worldwide, ~140,000 people *per day* are either killed or injured in road-traffic crashes each year.](https://www.brake.org.uk/get-involved/take-action/mybrake/knowledge-centre/global-road-safety#:~:text=Road%20traffic%20crashes%20now%20represent,deaths%20and%20injuries%20is%20preventable.) Again, that's **daily**. 51,350,000 people per year injured or killed in road-traffic incidents, but the news isn't lit up about it, screaming about how egregious it is. Even if the current incidents had injured or killed anyone (they haven't) the numbers wouldn't be remotely as high. So I agree with you that it's a massive perception-distortion problem. It's unreal, the spectacle and drama people place on aviation and aviation crashes/incidents. Commercial flying is [literally safer than taking a shower,](https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/1975/CPSC-Releases-New-Study-On-Bathtub-And-Shower-Injuries) but ohhhhh man, do people get worked up any time something happens. Also- the autopilot wasn't the issue in the 'nosedive' incidents. MCAS isn't even active with the autopilot on. Nor was it a window blowing out of the Max 9. It was a fuselage door plug. It's getting a little nuts, this 'Boeing!' wave the media are riding. The Max crashes were 5 years ago, and the issues surrounding that have been fixed. Millions have safely flown Maxes since. No one was injured in the door plug incident. *All* the 'because Boeing' things that the media is pumping since then are fairly common things that happen to any type of aircraft without serious consequences. Yet Airbus are under [EASA investigation for flawed main landing gear axels](https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/easa-mlg-a330-a340-mlg/amp) being installed on their planes. They've also caught a lot of heat worldwide for [questionable business practices/bribery](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/airbus-agrees-pay-over-39-billion-global-penalties-resolve-foreign-bribery-and-itar-case). But the media kind of looks the other way on all that because it doesn't generate clicks and views like "bOeInG pLaNe!" It's getting really bizarre.

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