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It started with the influx of automatic transmissions, to date, if some people are asked to drive cars with manual transmissions and no funny aids, they will fail dismally. Why, because modern cars are built in such a way to promote drivers with less skill and having them believe that they know what they doing.
There are some things that you have to get trained on in order to pass your driving test, but how good is this training if the car is going to do it for you with its park assist for example. If a person cannot drive, they should use public transport or hire a chauffeur for the good of everyone else and themselves.
It’s like a maths exam that’s set with answers at the back for the benefit of those not so good with their algebra it just doesn’t work. This feature has been designed in such a way that a driver will leave their car in parallel parking position and the car will do the rest, what happened to taking challenges head on and learning the hard things and actually mastering them.
It does not end there, there’s also hill start assist. If you are not able to do a “hill start”, you will never get a driver’s licence in Zimbabwe. That said, it is a crucial skill for one to attain a driver’s licence. With the way cars are being built these days, in the near future it might be done away with because cars will naturally not roll back because of hill start assist.
New technologies are being invented every day and Google is busy trying to perfect that driverless car of theirs. Very soon it’s going to be perfect and cars will indeed drive themselves. I wish I could go back in time, when cars actually used to be cars and made to be driven and enjoyed by people. Do not get me wrong, technology is good but how good is it if it makes us too dependent on it? It has lost its functionality and automotive designers are all trying to show off their imagination a pack of iconic show-offs. Till Next time Happy Motoring!
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