Comment by eternityforest

They're still far more complicated than a layman might guess after years of hearing that simple is always better.

I'm guessing things like fly by wire would be automatically assumed to be unsafe by a lot of people.

When cars get features that are anything like what goes into planes, people tend to get upset and say "I'm not an idiot, you should make cars expensive and complicated just because some drivers can't stop crashing without a computer".