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According to a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, many users of Cadillac’s Super Cruise and Tesla’s Autopilot power-assist systems are overly confident in the functions of those systems. as well as Infinitis or Nissan homeowners with ProPilot Assist, and found that “a large percentage of users” of Super Cruise and Autopilot “treated their systems as if they were autonomous. “
The evolution of complex motive force assistance systems, also known as ADAS, has occurred throughout the progression of fully autonomous driving technology. Many features of ADAS are aimed at safety, such as blind spot tracking or automatic emergency braking.
But it’s usually the double practical effect of the combination of adaptive cruise control (which helps maintain your speed relative to the car ahead) and lane-keeping (automatic guidance that helps keep the car in the lane) that makes headlines, and the news is rarely very good.
Since the car can accelerate, brake and turn in reaction to the input of a sensor that tells it what other road users are doing, it can be tempting to think of those formulas as autonomous. But the fact is that they are partially automated; Its designers and government assume that there is an attentive human being, supervising the formula at all times.
To this end, the vast majority of partially automated driving systems, known as “Level 2” in the SAE nomenclature, require the intervention of the motive force every 15 seconds before being switched off. But some systems allow for longer periods of hands-free driving.
Cadillac’s Super Cruise formula uses a driver-facing infrared camera that tracks the driver’s eye movements to make sure they are looking on the way forward when the formula is active. Cadillac’s formula also has an uncompromising operational design domain and can only use 200,000 miles of previously mapped segregated limited roads.
Finally, Tesla added a driver-oriented camera to its Autopilot system, while cutting off sensor redundancies by disabling radar and maintaining ultrasonic sensors. the Cadillac system, Autopilot limited to road use.
The third formula included through the IIHS was Nissan’s ProPilot Assist (and Infiniti), this is the previous edition 1. 0. Like Teslas before the end of 2021, ProPilot Assist cars only use a torque sensor in the guidance column as a proxy for a true force tracking formula motif. The Nissan/Infiniti formula is the least permissive in terms of time between harassing the motive force to be activated.
The IIHS survey included 200 GM homeowners, 202 Nissan/Infiniti homeowners and 202 Tesla homeowners, who were asked about their car’s partially automated formula and then asked about certain non-driving activities in the car. Respondents were also asked about the attention reminders those formulas use, whether they were ever blocked from accessing the formula (Autopilot and Super Cruise only), where the formulas were, and whether they had ever encountered an unforeseen habit due to this partially. Formula. of. driving. automatic.
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