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Statistics say we are much safer even with the occasional failure and crash.
There have been non fatal crashes recently caused by pilot error such as the 777 Asiana in SFO. Pilots make a ton of errors every day that the system captures either due to slop or technology. TCAS, GPWS, controllers noticing, etc.
Contributing to pilot error was over-reliance on automation, but "landing short" in SFO also seems to a right of passage among far-east carriers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_2