According to Engadget, Volvo will be adding a number of new features to annoy the piss out the soccer moms who drive their cars. Included will be a

Driver Alert Control for monitoring the behavior of the vehicle and suggesting that the motorist take a coffee break if there's just too much swayin' going on. Additionally, Volvo will be adding the slightly more common adaptive cruise control and distance alert features to the aforementioned cars

So what does a human factors expert (really my roommate David - although he really is a human factors expert) think about all this?

Great, lets annoy the shit out of the driver with obvious, non-critical information that they can figure out on their own just becuase the snot nosed 18 year old programmers reazlized "OMFG, I can actually make this do this with what I learned in C++ programming 101"!