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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you advocating cars with the most advanced "safety" features, those really are counter-productive.  They will mask poor skills and those poor skills become ingrained bad habits.

But if you think that producing a generation of drivers with worse habits than the current crop of drivers have, then have at it.[/quote]

This is moronic.  People don't learn to cope with skids by disabling anti-lock brakes, unless they are participating in a very unusually advanced and comprehensive driving school.  The first time any driver skids, they risk losing control completely and potentially disastrously.  Do you advocate disabling anti-lock brakes and traction control so your kid may, if they survive long enough, figure out how to control a car at various speeds and on various surfaces without those technologies?

Automated emergency braking is, by definition, for emergencies.  Unless you are confident your child will never be even momentarily distracted or inattentive while driving, and will always apply maximum braking force (studies show most people do not brake as hard as their cars can, even in emergencies, because applying that much force is nothing they ever practice and they fear losing control), such systems can be life-saving.  But, have at it with a sub-optimally equipped car if your child is that unicorn whose control of their vehicle is always skillful and absolute, no matter the circumstances, the weather, the environment, their mood, road conditions, passenger behavior, or the behavior of other drivers.

And, the latest safety features are sometimes passive and completely independent of driver behavior.  Three obvious examples:  the strength and performance of passenger safety cells, the effectiveness of anti-whiplash seating designs, and the nature, number and performance characteristics of airbags.  [/quote]

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