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Prozac for Car and Driver
Should “stability control” be mandatory?
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That’s not politically correct, of course. We live in an entitlement age, where a driver’s license is both easy to get and hard to take away — even when an individual repeatedly demonstrates incompetence (for example, multiple “at-fault” accidents over a period of less than five years, etc.) But if safer cars — and fewer accidents and motor vehicle fatalities — are the goal, at least part of the fix is to insist that drivers up their skill set and behave responsibly behind the wheel.
Technology can help, of course. But it can’t protect us against the consequences of our own poor judgment — nor should we expect it to. Unless what we expect is a continual “dumbing-down” of the average motorist, with technology picking up the slack.
And all of us picking up the tab.
About the Author
Eric Peters is an automotive columnist and author of Automotive Atrocities: The Cars You Love to Hate (Motor Books International) and a new book, Road Hogs.
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