‘We are killing people’: How technology has made your car ‘a candy store of distraction’


Even as vehicles get smarter and boast better safety features, there are growing concerns that roads are becoming more dangerous due to technology overloading drivers. — 123rf.com

In the late 1980s, the US Army turned to outside experts to study how pilots of Apache attack helicopters were responding to the torrent of information streaming into the cockpit on digital screens and analogue displays.

The verdict: not well.

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