How are we supposed to trust autonomous cars when the smartest engineers on the planet can't automate the condition of not diving a plane into the ground.
A sibling comment mentioned that the sensors fail constantly. Seems that it might be possible to operate such a system with a significant number of critical inputs in a degraded state which could lead to unknown effects IMO.
In many ways, automated driving is much more complex than successfully piloting an aircraft in regulated airspace.
The responsibility is on the pilot to identify and switch off anything malfunctioning.
Easy: air travel is still safer than car travel by orders of magnitude. Treating an incident like this one is an avoidable tragedy with lessons to learn is important, and thankfully this is changing for car crashes slowly [1], but a single failure of an autonomous system does not mean that it's not at all viable, because the alternative, purely human driving, is clearly a lot worse.