Quote : "Long ago there was a joke that in the future planes would fly themselves, and the only thing in the cockpit would be a pilot and a dog. The pilot’s job was to make the passengers comfortable that someone was up front. The dog’s job was to bite the pilot if he tried to touch anything."
That believe was there in the 2000s. Now after this MAX saga, pilot automation seems almost dead. Same goes for car automation. After Uber's automated car killed a pedestrian, self driving cars look like far beyond.
Even though just a few years back, automation level 5 seemed to be arriving within a year. When a car won't need a driver be present on the seat.