Given how many people text and otherwise don't pay full attention to their driving today, does anyone seriously believe that as increasingly capable adaptive cruise control/lane keeping/automated braking/etc. systems become common that large numbers of people won't completely disengage from driving? M

Most of them may even know that they're supposed to be actively driving but, seriously, that's not how humans are wired. And tsk, tsking about how people shouldn't do that isn't going to change anything.

It will be "interesting" to see how this plays out because it's apparent that we're rapidly heading for a point where we'll have cars that are "pretty good" at highway autopilot that are in no way certified or approved for hands-off operation by drivers playing a video game.