Carlos from Spain:
If it reduces the effort it means your are reducing the attention, otherwise it would be just like driving yourself. So if you come home so relaxed it means your have delegated a significant portion of the mental effort required in paying attention when driving onto the car's abilities, plain and simple.
Some people are comfortable on doing that with a simple level 2 driver assisting system, other's are not, not because they are not as technologically advanced as you but because they are not led onto a sense of security just because it seems to work so far (all it takes is one time it doesn't) and so they will still have to put the same mental effort in supervising the job the car is doing than if they are driving themselves, if anything it would be more nerve racking, and not that it improves their driving, that is what Nick is telling you.
Thank you for expanding on that.
"inventing' something doesn't means it makes things better.
A parallel can be drawn with cooking. Is instant noodles better than fresh cooked noodles? Canned sauce better than sauce made from scratch with fresh ingredients?
How about braised short ribs? Nowadays people go buy a Insta-Pot and cook short ribs that way. But I am old school and prefer searing the ribs first on a stove, then mix in everything else and stuff the pot in an oven and cook it conventionally. Arguably they taste much better my way. I very much enjoy the process of spending 5+hrs doing that. My 20 yr old hates cooking, and he isn't a very good cook either, Insta-Pot is a godsend for him. He loves his, just like how some Tesla fans loves their AutoPilot and FSD.
Computer assisted driving is for people that can't drive, or hates driving, and that don't enjoy driving but they still need to go somewhere and do something.
Do one takes out a Tesla and set it to FSD on a Sunday morning for a relaxing drive? Weird if someone do that.
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