Robots Are Ruining Your Driving Skills
- Distracted humans becoming dependent on semi-autonomous aids
- ‘Technology is making drivers lazier and less attentive’
QuickTake: The Road Ahead for Self-Driving Cars
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If your car can hit the brakes in an emergency and check your blind spots, will that make you a worse driver? Increasingly, automakers are worrying it may.
Driver-assist technology that keeps cars in their lanes, maintains a safe distance from other vehicles, warns of unseen traffic and slams the brakes to avoid rear-end crashes are rapidly spreading from luxury cars to everyday Hondas, Nissans and Chevys. But these automated aids aimed at improving safety are having an unintended consequence: They’re degrading driving skills.