Beat the traffic with these 5 car features

Traffic is an unavoidable reality for most commuting South Africans. Our spatial geography is a mess and our city planners face severe challenges to address the problem. A major satellite navigation system manufacturer reckons the average South African loses about 90 working hours a year, sitting in traffic. The good news is that there is a wide variety of technological solutions to help ease the burden of an old-fashioned snarl-up.

An automatic gearbox:

No matter how light and perfectly snickety-snick the modern manual gearbox might be, endless clutch- control in heavy traffic is bad for your clutch and less than joyful for your left leg. Modern automatics are a slick-shifting, super-intelligent shadow of the woeful slushmatics of yesteryear, meaning that the petrolhead purists can opt for the auto without feeling they’re settling for second best. Some dual-clutch automatics are actually more fuel-efficient than an old-fashioned manual, but in any case, many people are willing to sacrifice a few drops of fuel to the gods of comfort and convenience.