Re: You had one job...
“I've driven a car with adaptive cruise control, lane following, emergency braking, etc. In theory on the motorway you could just take your hands off everything and let the car do it's stuff, at least until you wanted to overtake.
My car does this. If I take my hands off the wheel it stops doing it. It’s such a good thing to have on quiet roads, but in heavy traffic l can’t bring myself to trust it. I often switch it off and drive when there is high speed traffic moving close together, not that it can’t cope with it, but I like to find safer spots in the traffic to give myself more out-options if things start going wrong.
For instance, when you have slow heavy trucks overtaking each other and blocking multi lanes, I hang back from the bunch of idiots that queue up behind them, and wait until the problem clears. The self drive doesn’t do that, it just gets itself into the queue.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
