Drivers woefully overestimate hands-free driver tech, study shows
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Many users of Cadillac's Super Cruise and Tesla's Autopilot driver assist systems are overconfident in those systems' abilities, according to a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. IIHS surveyed owners of Super Cruise-equipped Cadillacs, Autopilot-enabled Teslas, and also owners of Infinitis or Nissans with ProPilot Assist, and found that "large percentages of users" of both Super Cruise and Autopilot "were comfortable treating their systems as self-driving."
The evolution of advanced driver assistance systems-aka ADAS-has happened in parallel to the development of fully autonomous driving technology. Many ADAS features are safety oriented, like blind spot monitoring or automatic emergency braking.
But it's usually the convenience feature double-whammy of combining adaptive cruise control (which maintains your speed relative to the car in front) and lane keeping (auto steering that keeps the car within the lane) that makes the headlines, and often the news is not good.