New German Automotive Tech: You're Doing It Wrong.

This is a sad commentary on the quality of drivers on the street today. Mercedes-Benz, long an innovator in the realm of automotive safety, comes up with a system to stop your car for you at a red light. Because you are expected to suck at driving too much to do it for yourself. And because you would never, ever have a need to run a light, like a medical emergency or fleeing from agents of an oppressive government. Because the German health care system has eliminated all lesser races diseases, and the German government would never want to oppress it's people.

Say it with me now, class: "Mechanical safety devices breed complacency."

Because this post has too little controversial material in it, I'll leave you with this: There is a certain amount of goodness to things that kill unskilled operators.