What you probably don't notice, but which is a phenomenon, is the fact that many people feel overwhelmed by driving. We already had the topic recently when it came to the high failure rates in the practical driving test in Germany.

But you also notice a certain reluctance on yourself when you come across the functional diversity of modern cars. What did it actually start with? I can say that exactly. That was the first automatic start-stop system in which a computer switched off the engine, but then restarted it for no reason during the waiting period.

One wonders whether it wasn't programmed incorrectly in some way. Why doesn't he check before switching off the engine whether it can stand for, say, at least five minutes. Until now I had thought that computers in cars were a blessing, e.g. for exhaust gas detoxification, but now I had my doubts for the first time.

Since then they have intensified and spread. It is said that there are already truck drivers, maybe even female drivers, who ask before thorough training whether the whole thing can't simply be switched off. Actually, people had thought that they could get by with fewer and fewer functions, precisely because one has computers on board.

Our exit from the garage rises slightly to a busy road. Despite orientation, one was used to look through the rear window and operating the clutch and gas pedal because rear-view mirrors did not always detect pedestrians who might be crossing. What is that with creeping automatic and camera a blessing today?

Road traffic has also been subjected to more and more rules that make driving easier if you follow them. Sure, there are often a lot of vehicles on the road, but that doesn't necessarily have to worry you, does it? Well, you lose a lot of time, but what's difficult in such a highly regulated environment?

In order to get a truck driver's license earlier, you still had to reverse around a curve of more than 90° and then arrive at the curb as precisely as possible, while naturally observing the five meters concealed by the examiner. Do curves like this still exist? You were sent 'next right' which turned out to be a one-way street.

Today you can get your driver's license in an automatic or purely electric car and then drive a car with a manual transmission afterwards. But what can you do wrong, e.g. with an electric car, especially since it also beeps as if pierced with every enemy approach.

It's probably the accessories that don't really belong in a car. If I'm already reading this: 'Audio controls on the steering wheel'. Not even switching on the light belongs to the steering wheel. The turn signal lever and maybe the operation of the windscreen wipers are enough. Anyway, why do I still have to laboriously set the intervals, wouldn't that be an ideal task for a computer?

They don't exist so that some cranks as programmers and thus enemies of easy usability can let off steam their desires. It's not a matter of coming up with so-and-so a function, the issue is 'simplification'. Why? Because it also improves road safety.