Automakers seem convinced that we’re all obsessed with safety features but some of those features are just annoying car auto cars
over another. Once a rough price range and practicality considerations have been applied and helped narrow our choice down, usually to a bunch of vehicles from various brands all trying to do the same job, the hard decisions begin.
When I started writing about cars around the turn of the millennium any reference to a news car’s safety features usually consisted of mentioning the number of airbags , whether anti-lock brakes and traction control were standard and, if they were optional, how much they cost, plus the Euro NCAP star rating, if the crash team had got around to crunching that model. Now, when we have to list the safety features of a new car it takes about the same time as reeling off the list of luxury goodies.
But the quality of the modern assistance systems seems to vary between automakers and it feels like, while the aim of saving lives is noble and worthwhile, some of the tech is still too primitive not to be annoying while doing its job. I suspect I’ll have to wait a little longer for more sophisticated versions to come along before I’ll be ready to fully embrace them.
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