They're piling one expensive gadget on after another, but completely ignoring the fact that most drivers are abysmally trained.
Once around the block, parallel park, and now you can go ripping down the superslab at 80 mph. But you're encased in a car that has 10K worth of mandated "safety features" and one day will pretty much drive itself so somehow that's ok.... Dumb dumb dumb.
My plan - make all that crap optional, and mandate only better driver training.
And the day my car drives itself is the day I turn in my keys for good. I drive a stick because I like the total control, when that's taken away from me I may as well take a bus.
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It'd be nice if most drivers could handle merging onto an interstate highway, but that's one thing they don't even bother to teach in driver's ed.
All of these Stability Control systems turn the vehicles into understeering pigs.
Screw it, I'm going to go buy something wierd and old, like a 71 Volvo P1800.