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RSS BotMB to Lobste.rsEnglish · 8 days ago

Losing Skills

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Losing Skills

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RSS BotMB to Lobste.rsEnglish · 8 days ago
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For the last year, I've been driving a 2025 Toyota Sienna, a boat of a minivan. It's got all sorts of fancy features that I won't get into right now, but the big one that bothers me the most is a "lane drift" sensor that makes the steering wheel vibrate if you start to leave your lane (without a turn signal) and will actually turn the wheel/redirect the vehicle for you if you drift too far. Ostensibly, this is a great feature, as it helps you notice a Very Bad Thing™, but I've found that it's had the opposite effect on me.Even tho I can toggle it off, and I now do, I've spent enough time with it on that I've noticed that I drift in my lanes significantly more. I drive a "normal" car pretty frequently as well, a 2016 Subaru, and regardless of how determined I am to pay attention, the last year I've had more close calls and moments of lane drifting that in the 20+ years of driving beforehand. I have lost my habitual lane touching, my gentle turns and checks that keep the car centered in my lane, because I have quite accidentally learned to drive with bowling bumpers. Instead of staying consistently midline, I grew to accept and rely on bouncing between the edges of the lane, making me a less safe driver for my self, my family, and for everyone on the highway around me.Having noticed this the last couple months, I've been making a concerted effort to relearn this skill, to focus my whole attention on staying centered in the lanes, to keep distractions to a minimum, to place my hands where they should go. It's slow work, truthfully, but I refuse to back down and will not allow myself to ever use such a feature again. Cars are evil, dangerous creatures and demand respect.

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