Year End

Tiny Shifters, Lane Nannies Top List of Most Annoying Car Technology

A year’s worth of test drives yields five big gripes.

The Mercedes-Benz S Class comes chock full of the most advanced automotive technologies on the market—if consumers ever learn how to use them. 

Source: Mercedes-Benz

The 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class comes with enough infotainment to entertain the most tech-obsessed passengers.

Its OLED touchscreens span the dashboard like a pixelated surfboard, its heads-up camera is displayed in big-screen augmented reality, its on-board wellness systems surpass the serenity levels of several local spas I’ve visited here in Los Angeles—all factors in why it ranks as the best car I drove in 2021.