11/27/2023 0 Comments Don trip no gimmicksBy 2012, every car sold in America had one. A little more than 10 years ago, the Lexus RX 300 wore a “VSC” badge to brag about its stability-control system. But once in a while, there’s the rare golden idea, like the intermittent windshield wiper or the stability-control system, that quickly proves to be indispensable and becomes standard issue. Over the years, I’ve seen great ideas that don’t stick (four-wheel steering), good ideas poorly executed (BMW’s original iDrive system), and gimmicks that never live up to their promise (voice-control systems, all of which seem to require fluency in some obscure Klingon dialect). It’s hard to parse the game-changing innovations from the sea of tricks, misfires, and half-baked duds. At every auto show, car companies trip over one another to tout the latest tech wizardry debuting in the machine of the moment.
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