&#62; <i>Drive-by-wire can be made safe.</i><p>Sure, if you're willing to spend 70 million dollars on a car.<p>Snarky one-liners aside, this hits on one of my pet peeves: software quality. I mean, there's no reason why my IDE should die every time it tries to open a .sql file bigger than about 500K, but it does; there's no reason why MacOS X shouldn't have a "refresh" command in its Finder views, but it doesn't; there's no reason why I have to bang my head against software issues <i>every single day</i>, but I do.<p>So, while the optimistic technologist in me would like to see what cars could do with more advanced computer-controlled systems, the experienced and pragmatic technician in me is really not looking forward to it.