Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
People who learnt to drive within the last 15 or 20 years have been dramatically short-changed, h. Never having known a vehicle without ABS, radial tyres, disc brakes and traction control means they never developed any sort of feeling for the process of controlling the car; they are simply able to point the thing in the direction they want to go and use the stop and go pedals. On the very rare occasion that road conditions make the process a little more interactive, they're fúcked.

It's a shame, is what it is.
But the infantilisation of the driver has been a process the car industry has encouraged - indeed, striven towards - for decades. This is because most road accidents are the fault of the sack of meat behind the wheel and reducing their input in the process does actually cut the number of RTAs.