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This is great, of course, and has obviously saved a lot of lifes. However, it sometimes feels that it gives a false impression of safety to many driver

 

These are primary points. Let's add another: how many people will just relegate driving a car to the fact of moving fast from one place to another? How many potential driver champions will be lost, because they aren't aroused by a father whose driving style is more sport-oriented? Sport-oriented doesn't mean driving at 200km/h: it maybe just the matter of using a manual gear in place of an automated one...

 

(Now, I reckon this specific example has got a strong limit: we still have plenty of driver champions, because in the end there is a very limited number of places to allocate - e.g. F1 drivers can't be but a few dozens. But just imagine that this specific limit doesn't exist...).

 

And are we sure Hamilton or Vettel are champions of the same stuff as those in the past? Sure, they deliver. But, personally, I'm getting more and more bored by a F1 competition (and I've even worked in that field, a few years ago) hearing the discussions being more and more focused on technical stuff, being electronics or tires - or the rules, which are forced to be more and more complex - rather than the genuine skill of the driver.