Are Our Brains Being Fried

[pimplyteen]

Or should I say obsolete. I ask this because someone asked me the other day if my car had sensor lights, I said no, why would I need them I've been driving long enough to know when I need to switch them on.
The same was put to me about a wiper sensor, if it rains you just switch them on don't you.
Ok so the 2 examples above are just a fraction of what is just done on our behalf without having to think for ourselves.
This morning on TV someone was coming up with the most basic advice on how to save energy, basically just switching off, teaching how to suck eggs really. Do people really not know?

Can you give an example / gadget that's made our brain obsolete?

[pimplyteen]

Brain bashing on my mobile above.

[barry1010]

I always turn my indicators off as soon as I have completed my turn. False signals are dangerous. As far as I'm concerned, the fewer distractions a driver has, the better he can concentrate on the traffic conditions.
We've always been given basic advice - read some of the pamphlets dished out to housewives during WWII as examples but it is foolhardy to assume that just because something is 'basic' or 'obvious' everyone is aware of it.
If you watched TV in the 1970s you would assume that parents were incapable of teaching their children how to cross the road or protect them from 'stranger danger' (Charlie says.....)
Technology and gadgets may have caused us to lose some of the skills our parents and grandparents had (my mental arithmetic is dreadful thanks to calculators and google) but I have skills they didn't have.

[davebro]

I like the washing products adverts when they end with "Always keep away from children". I try my hardest to do just that.

[Hopkirk]

The washing capsules would be better marked "do not buy if you have children".
There are plenty of occasions of toddlers chewing on them

[barry1010]

Childproof containers make life very difficult for those with arthritic or weak hands

[THECORBYLOON]

"I've lost count how many times we've been told that the new PM will be choosen on the 5th of Sept @ 12.30 pm."

That’s the first time I've seen a specific time mentioned and will it not be the time the outcome is announced rather than the new PM being chosen?