This is compounded by Manufacturers and legislative bodies forcing driver assistance systems on everyone.
<sarcasm> Back when I was a lad, I could drive my manual-transmission vehicle while reading a paper street directory, texting on one phone, talking on another and eating a cheeseburger., Kids nowadays don’t know how to drive.</sarcasm>
I believe that the driver assistance systems encourage inattentive driving. Tesla rightly gets a lot of press for this, but when the car holds the lane and brakes for you 99.9% of the time, it sure seems safe to send that email, formatting and all.
But the problem is that one would require self-awareness to identify what degree of inattentiveness is OK (change the radio station) or not (review the PowerPoint Jane sent over). With our current technology situation, those systems probably are net positive for collision avoidance.
My kids get to learn to drive with all that shite disabled. Except the emergency stuff (auto braking), which seems like a good idea. Check your own blind spot, dummy.
Your sarcasm post is actually me xD . Cars should be cars, not computers or entertainment booths. But I actually like driving and mechanical things so im the .0000000001% of lemmy. All my cars are manual and few have AC or ABS. Just how I like it.
Just between you, me and the entire Fediverse, I put the sarcasm tags on just in case I offended anyone.
We need better public transport so that those people who are not confident drivers, or are not competent drivers, or are downright incompetent drivers don’t have to drive.
Less roads, less vehicles on the roads mean that those people who do enjoy driving for the sake of driving can still drive, but they are sharing the road with like-minded people. This is my selfish view with altruistic results.
This is compounded by Manufacturers and legislative bodies forcing driver assistance systems on everyone.
<sarcasm> Back when I was a lad, I could drive my manual-transmission vehicle while reading a paper street directory, texting on one phone, talking on another and eating a cheeseburger., Kids nowadays don’t know how to drive.</sarcasm>
I believe that the driver assistance systems encourage inattentive driving. Tesla rightly gets a lot of press for this, but when the car holds the lane and brakes for you 99.9% of the time, it sure seems safe to send that email, formatting and all.
But the problem is that one would require self-awareness to identify what degree of inattentiveness is OK (change the radio station) or not (review the PowerPoint Jane sent over). With our current technology situation, those systems probably are net positive for collision avoidance.
My kids get to learn to drive with all that shite disabled. Except the emergency stuff (auto braking), which seems like a good idea. Check your own blind spot, dummy.
Your sarcasm post is actually me xD . Cars should be cars, not computers or entertainment booths. But I actually like driving and mechanical things so im the .0000000001% of lemmy. All my cars are manual and few have AC or ABS. Just how I like it.
Just between you, me and the entire Fediverse, I put the sarcasm tags on just in case I offended anyone.
We need better public transport so that those people who are not confident drivers, or are not competent drivers, or are downright incompetent drivers don’t have to drive.
Less roads, less vehicles on the roads mean that those people who do enjoy driving for the sake of driving can still drive, but they are sharing the road with like-minded people. This is my selfish view with altruistic results.
Yep I agree!