Damn you Kinja, why can’t I star this.

I fully endorce dropping the big current Land Cruiser and (re)introducing a new-ish Land Cruiser 70 in the US market. They can let Lexus keep that bloated thing.

I've worked in military and airline aviation, and in industrial automation, for many decades now. Automation is only as reliable and capable as the human designers and programmers make it, and thus automation will never eliminate human failure. It does tend to greatly reduce the ability of a system to compensate for…

they knew they could do that from the start.

As a former F/A I can tell you that all of the above answers are true. Some people tried to work with the same person as often as possible to act like a couple. Some people had someone waiting for them in almost every town. Some people got drunk and hooked up a lot (with crew members or random locals). Some people ate…