Comments on: How Cars are Turning You Into Crappier Drivers

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:56:05 +0000

For all of you that think all of this technology is go great, just remember your children, and grand children will be driving these potential death traps. Today you can maintain and drive a 20 year old car, and have no worries. Imagine maintaining, and driving a 20 years old car with all of this smart technology. A short in the wiring, and computer malfunction, or a faulty sensor could just injure or kill you, and anyone else driving next to you. Maybe someone else is driving that poorly maintained 20 year old piece of junk, and they kill you….
Heaven forbid we should have to do anything physical like turn our head to look in the lanes next to us, or turn a steering wheel, or move our feet.

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By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:22:01 +0000

Well, yes, in some perfect world where everyone is a perfect driver, there are no distractions, and nobody has any moment of weakness ever, then you are absolutely correct. However for the real world, aids like these would help mitigate the damage caused by all those drivers you look down upon. You should be happy about these technologies because they could mean that your life is safer from the people you don’t think should be driving anymore.

By: dick ...d

dick ...d — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:52:51 +0000

AMEN!!! For Pete’s sake, people, you’re flinging a 4,000 lb + hunk of metal down the road …you can’t just turn the key and rely on your computery, wirey, self-guidey “car” to do it all for you! Being like any other man-made piece of machinery, it can and will fail…eventaully. And if you don’t know how to handle an emergency, like brake failure.. or sticking gas pedal…maybe driving ISN’T for you. No wonder we’ve become such a lazy, fat-ass bunch! I’ve been driving ( and i mean DRIVING) for 50 years and I still take it as seriously as i did when i started learning to drive in my dad’s ’53 stick-shift Pontiac. And i stil occasionally drive my first car…a 1930 Model A Ford. Now that’s REAL driving!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:56:02 +0000

If it was for me to say, I wouldn’t allow drivers under 25 years old…but luckily, it’s not up to me.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:27:08 +0000

Some people just don’t have a feel for driving, that’s what public transport is for.
For the luckier half, there should be a car control part of licence tests.
Then we might even see an end to the evils of speed limits.

By: Savannah

Savannah — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:25:09 +0000

For the device that keeps you from swerving off the road you mentioned that there are only three reasons for leaving your lane on a highway. I disagree. Imagine some horrific driver (or even a good driver having a horrific day) swerved into your lane of traffic. You’d definitely want to swerve into the shoulder to avoid a head on collision. You could die in such a situation if your car didn’t allow you to react instantly to an unpredictable situation.
I still believe that EVERY driver should learn how to drive a manual transmission, and should take defensive driving courses. It’s just too dangerous not to.
We certainly don’t need more gadgets trying to compensate for our pathetic inadequacy, we need more awareness, better education, and actual penalties for the sort of driving that causes accidents.

By: Mike Lewis

Mike Lewis — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:31:08 +0000

Before we put more gadgets in cars, let’s get the ones we already have to work properly, starting with Toyota’s throttle control software.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:08:17 +0000

George Carlin said: We don’t need safer cars, we need safer drivers.