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The first thing I noticed about planes is they are not cars.

Seems an analogy that’d rapidly break down.

Well, you want to be witty, but that‘s exactly the point of an analogy: Make things that are different comparable, so you can come to conclusions about thing A even though you only have knowledge of thing B.

You might want to try to strengthen your argument by explaining why an analogy between cars and planes can‘t hold (one moves only in „2D“ vs. the other one moves in „3D“ for example)

that 737 costs 100,000,000

a plane crash kills a lot of people

The training to drive a car vs a 737 is Hugh

They both have alternatives (ie looking around you). What's the procedure for figuring out whether AOA sensors disagree when there's no indicator light? The sensors are probably used in numerous ways by the flight control software.

Those are compulsory... At least in Europe. Are there many cars in the US that don't have warning lights when braking? Jesus.

Automatic braking is optional. Braking lights aren't.