Interestingly, driver aids have been implicated in causing more severe winter accidents, eg. this [1] 100-car pile-up in Sweden a few years back. Basically, people don&#x27;t understand that the ESP lamp flashing means &quot;slow down or you will probably crash&quot;. Drive an old, RWD, no electronics car and you&#x27;ll be more aware of dangerous conditions. 100% non-overridable self-driving cars may someday fix this, but things will probably get worse before they get better. Humans being humans, they will think the car is overly cautious most of the time, and put it in manual because they&#x27;re running 5 mins late.<p>The more interesting question about the automated car is &quot;can it do a Scandinavian flick&quot;? They should come with a dedicated button for that.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-21035634" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-europe-21035634</a>