Originally Posted By: Shannow
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/disciplin...tle-editor-pick
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This shows a really major mindset error. Humanity doesn't work the way that Tesla insists here. Not just in keeping our hands on the wheel when not strictly required from one millisecond to the next, but also, in keeping our minds engaged with the task of driving when not strictly required to do so.
I don't know anyone who has taken dozens of long trips in automobiles equipped with "cruise control" who doesn't have at least one story about the driver having to slam the brakes on to prevent a collision due to stopped or slowed traffic ahead. I'm not talking about distracted driving here. It's not a smart phone problem or a texting while driving problem, or even a hands-free or hands-not-free dialing problem. It's the absence of mindedness.
I am totally disagree with the author in this statement. I used cruise control more often on long trip, I never had to slam the brake while on cruise control for anything. I did slam the brake while not on cruise control because of heavy traffic to avoid a collision due to stopped or slowed traffic ahead.
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In no case will someone whose mind is not required to engage in the task at hand nevertheless remain fully engaged in that task for hours without end.
This goes to the heart of why I feel that my passengers and I, and everybody else, are safer when I am driving a vehicle that has a manual transmission and a "clutch", than when I am driving with an automatic transmission. I'd like to see rear-end collision statistics divided up by the kind of transmission the striking vehicle had, rather than just by the age or experience or safety record of the driver as is usually done.
Totally wrong here too, I don't think I am safer while driving my S2000 with manual transmission compares with automatic transmission in my E430 or LS400.
Two critical wrong opinions makes me mistrust the author and his study.