My bugaboo on safety issues is automation. Pilots are still prone to coupling gizmos for navigation and flying chores rather than to grasp that funny looking steering wheel thingy to physically operate the plane. This trend is manifested by many videos of planes plunging out of cloud bases during IMC, or even spinning to terra firma in VMC. Of course not all such mishaps are recorded for posterity, but at least the FAA is taking a stab at coaxing pilots to eschew hooking up computers to conduct their trips.