6 modern car technologies that make driving worse

There is a strange thing happening to modern cars.

They keep getting more advanced. They also keep getting more annoying.

There is a reason physical knobs and switches survived for so long. You can find them by touch.

I’m not talking about technology in general. Modern safety systems have unquestionably prevented crashes and saved lives. Innovations like backup cameras and blind-spot monitoring are genuinely helpful. I’m not interested in going back to drum brakes and lap belts.

But somewhere along the way, automakers started treating every new feature as an improvement simply because it was new.

On a recent episode of “The Drive,” Karl Brauer and I were joined by the show’s former longtime host, Alan Taylor. We started going through some of the modern automotive technologies that sound