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ATC Watcher
That last part also is an interesting one regarding automation and public acceptance..
Public understanding of risk is insane.
Right now we have people complaining about the cost of actions to prevent the spread of a disease that kills or injures a few people per 100. But imagine the uproar if an aircraft manufacturer said, "it's too expensive to introduce a technology that would prevent one crash per 10,000 takeoffs" !