Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is the ranking of the New Safeguard workshopping for cars that utilize the partial automation system. This system uses various types of sensors to monitor road conditions around the vehicle, providing functions such as automatic path changes and adaptive cruise ship control (ACC).
According to IIHS, there is no evidence to support the idea that partial automation actually increases security on the road. It also argues that, if there is no adequate protection in place, these features can make driving more dangerous. Especially if the driver places too much faith in them.
“The way many of these systems operate gives people the impression that they are able to do more than actually,” IIHS research scientists and head of the new ranking program, Alexandra Mueller, said in the announcement. “As humans, it is harder for us to remain vigilant when we watch and wait for problems to occur than when we do all drive ourselves.”
Overselling of the actual ability of the given functions and misleading messages is what IIHS is believed to cause some drivers who are too dependent on partial automation. According to IIHS, this has resulted in several examples where the driver has mistakenly treat features such as autopilot forms, as far as playing cellular games instead of maintaining their environmental awareness (through NTSB).
New rating.
The ratings will be set to include four different levels: good, acceptable, marginal, or poor. But how well the partial automation system handles road monitoring instead of the only criteria that will be focused by IIHS – it also intends to see how well the vehicle monitors the driver itself, and whether it provides a reminder of attention or not.
To get a good rating, the system must be able to ensure that the driver’s eyes remain on the road and that they have their wheels or are ready to take the wheel at that time. In other words, the driver should not be put into a position where they believe they can really relax while driving.
While IIHS acknowledges that there is no way for the system to ensure that the driver’s mind is focused on the road, showing that technology to monitor the position of the hand, head posture, and views do exist and can be used to determine whether there are drivers pay attention to the road.
For when IIHS doesn’t know exactly when it will start issuing this new rank, but it expects to start anytime in 2022.