Note that CRM with autopilot also could and should be improved.
For example, take TCAS.
The pilots are told to obey TCAS resolution advisories without thinking and disobey ATC instructions when conflicting.
Since TCAS alerts are rare, they are unfamiliar with resolving them, in hurry because they have to shut down autopilot first, and they may overreact with the result that they collide with a third plane or cause unnecessary injuries to passengers and stewardesses because of high accelerations.
If obeying a TCAS resolution advisory is to be such an automatic move, an autopilot ought to be able to do this. Airbus has invented something like this:
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/06/03/327310/airbus-reveals-a380-linked-pilot-systems-secrets.html
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