Human‐centred design and assessment of information technologies in traffic

It is not without amusement that we sometimes notice how dangerously some in-vehicle technologies were regarded in the past, and that are now are seen as innocuous. Radios in cars, for example, were deemed such a source of dangerous distraction when they were introduced that it was proposed to ban them in some states of the US. Fortunately, nowadays, we can behold these old views as very naive, as it has been clearly demonstrated that they were completely unfounded - or has it?