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    Consumer Confidential: Boeing charged extra for safety features. The 737 Max crashes show why that's a bad idea

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Mar 22, 2019 4 minutes

    The passenger jets that crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia, killing hundreds, reportedly lacked special safety features in their cockpits - features that Boeing charged extra for.

    Meanwhile, buyers of new cars have to decide how much extra they want to shell out for add-on safety features such as lane-departure warnings, technology that could save the lives of drivers and those around them.

    This raises an intriguing question for the digital age: Should safety be a premium service?

    Put another way, if a plane, car or other machine can be made demonstrably safer through something as simple as a software

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