My 14 year old niece has been flying right-seat with her dad in a wide range of aircraft from tail-draggers to dual-engine turbo-props for the better part of 5 years. She was left seat 2 summers ago in both glider and lake craft, with supervision. He's turned her over now to an actual flight school because he really MUST make sure she earns her quals, and he's convinced she is ready to do just that. She won't do her over-land distance solo for a while, but even after that, there are years and years and years before she would even dream of right seat in a commercial aircraft.

Putting a computer in charge of an aircraft without the back-up of an effective kill-switch manned by a qualified aircraft captain is hardly the definition of Boeing's ( or any other owner/operator) best work. First Max that went down should have been the last one.

More than one charter boat has gone aground because auto-pilot was misused by < someone> a charter company trusted as " captain". CYOA won't clear a boat for the STX crossing without 2 CG licensed captains aboard. I'm pretty sure the reason why is no big mystery.