Rant: Current car commercials

theDreamer

I think most of the points have been pointed out about how the car in the commercial really does not have good brakes, tires, etc. They are advertising the new features which are computers driving for humans.

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Jeffblue

put a sleepy driver behind the wheel of a volvo, 458 italia, or a lotus, and they are still a hazard. i think the nanny's are just enablers. they make people feel like its ok to drive home if they are dozing off.

shadoquad

This can be said of many modern automotive amenities. ABS, traction control systems, back-up cameras... People only learn to be as sophisticated in operations as the system requires. And I've noticed it in completely different arenas. If machine operation is difficult and somehow requires skill, some people will master it, others will learn just enough to get by, and some will simply operate it at subpar, dangerous levels. If you hand them help in the form of software shortcuts, the masters will become frustrated with whatever sandbox you throw them in, the "just get by" crowd learns less and becomes less sophisticated, and the subpar people are somewhat buoyed up by the nanny systems, but are nonetheless still terrible operators, because they don't understand what it is they're supposed to be doing.