Safety features have become one of the most important considerations for buyers when choosing a car. As vital life-saving technology has taken hold, it's becoming increasingly difficult for newbies to get to grips with how a car behaves when it's not being dictated to by a bunch of zeros and ones.
This binary invasion, it seems, is aimed at keeping the worst drivers out of trouble and dumbs down other drivers who become complacent and reliant on safety gear.
But the quality of some of these safety systems is getting so high that there's a lot that should become default on all vehicles. Stability control is vital, reversing cameras, lane departure warnings and collision avoidance systems should be compulsory.
Like many Driven readers, I do rather miss the cars of old that you could throw around without a microprocessor stepping in and spoiling all the fun - but I do like the peace of mind that comes with knowing that the bulk of drivers around me are reined in by management systems.
After all, many of those on our roads seem to have a default setting of "utter stupidity" and shouldn't be trusted with total control of their cars.
