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6th edition of the 11th year of SmartDrivingCars eLetter

Active Driving Assistance Evaluation Report

Staff, January 2023, “…PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT

In line with Consumer Reports’ mission to create a fair, safe, and consumer-driven marketplace, this report has been written for the industry to provide more explanation and guidance on the state of Active Driving Assistance systems based on our recent evaluations. CR’s evaluations focus on real-world driving experience, consumer survey data, and experts’ insights, keeping safety at the forefront.

Previous Testing and Reports We examine systems that assist with vehicle speed (Adaptive Cruise Control) and steering (Lane Centering Assist). Active Driving Assistance (ADA) is the combination of when Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Centering Assistance (LCA) are active simultaneously. CR first began evaluating Active Driving Assistance in 2018, testing four of these systems. The testing procedures and report influenced how other organizations, such as IIHS and Euro NCAP, would begin evaluating the same types of systems. Testing expanded to include 18 systems in 2020—one from each major automaker and one aftermarket device.

CR also works with other organizations to test ADAS systems, such as the MIT AVT (Advanced Vehicle Technology) consortium, where data has been collected in naturalistic studies from hundreds of thousands of miles of real-world driving. Collaborative relationships with global testing organizations regarding specifics in metrics and scoring ensure that CR’s testing program is robust and aligned in terms of capabilities as well as driver safety…”

Read more Hmmmm…. A really good report. Discussion is in SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 303 / PodCast 303, Alain

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 303 / PodCast 303 w/Kelly Funkhouser, Consumer Reports

“F. Fishkin, Feb. 9, “ Ford’s BlueCruise comes out on top in an evaluation of active driving assistance systems by Consumer Reports. Manager of Vehicle Technology Kelly Funkhouser joins us for a look at what car makers are getting right and getting wrong. Plus.. Tesla, Mobileye, autonomous planes and more.

  • 0:00 open
  • 0:48 Active Driving Assistance Evaluation Report from Consumer Reports
  • 2:53 Ford’s BlueCruise ousts GM as top in ADAS
  • 10:33 What is the value of being able to drive hands free and pedal free
  • 16:40 Why doesn’t the technology prevent speeding and misbehavior
  • 21:08 Are consumers using the safety features..
  • 27:14 Pro active braking assist coming to more vehicles and is a great feature
  • 36:00 Should there be a light or mechanism that shows others whether cars are being controlled by human or automated system?
  • 43:43 Are there things that carmakers are really getting right or really getting wrong?
  • 51:00 Corvette on top in CR report on vehicle owner satisfaction
  • 52:43 Navya
  • 53:00 Axios reports autonomous passenger planes inching closer to takeoff
  • 54:00 a fight against sludge…from NY Times
  • 54:51 Mobileye post advocating simpler language for autonomy levels
  • 56:47 Waymo named Super Bowl officials autonomous technology partner

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MIT Mobility Forum: Spring 2023

· Fridays 12:00-13:00 Boston Time Open to the public

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· Hosted by Prof. Jinhua Zhao

AGENDA

· Feb 17 Alain Kornhauser “Envisioning Profitable Autonomous Transit Networks “

· Feb 24 Hani Mahmassani “Telemobility, hybrid work and the next normal”

· March 3 Liz Renold and David Mindell “Tectonic shifts in science, technology, and industrial policy: looking ahead”

· March 10 Juan de Dios Ortuzar “Modelling Sustainable Options - the importance of habit and perceptions”

· March 17 Robin Chase “The case against transportation policy priority one being electrified personal cars”

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  • SafeDrivingCars: Those in which the automated function are explicitly designed to not only substantially reduce driver misbehavior by constraining the performance characteristic such as incorporating speed governors that only permit excessive speeds in geofenced locations such as Watkins Glen International and stretches of the German Autobahn, but also automatically intervene to prevent crashes; thus, extending what is done today with anti-lock brakes and electronic stability control.

  • SelfDrivingCars: Those which allow the driver for some extended period of time to be “feet-off” the brake & throttle, delivering to the driver substantial comfort & convenience, but also “hands-off” the wheel for shorter periods of time providing a little more comfort & convenience. Absolutely required are “eyes & brain” focused the human task of driving, ready to intervene should the automated driver begin to fail.

  • DriverlessCars: Those which serve only passengers and/or goods from trip start, through finish. Luckily, the notion that individuals might own such vehicles for personal use and/or be able to “AirB&B” them for others to get from A to B is now realized by essentially everyone as exceedingly naïve. The Mercedes booth at this year’s CES showed no sign of its [Mercedes Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion LIVE PREMIERE CES 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eftN0lwNk88). Yea!

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  • Hawkins, Oct. 27, “When Ford announced yesterday that it was pulling its support for Argo AI, the autonomous driving startup it had financed since 2017, it cited as one of its reasons a belief that driver-assist technology will have more near-term payoffs…..” Read more Hmmmm… I agree with Andrew, as I stated above. Alain

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  • These systems outrageously reduce crash probabilities, and/or

  • maybe some, but we’re probably not much luckier.

  • very few of the cars in use during that “10” month period had Level 2 capabilities, and/or

  • unfortunately, the VIN number doesn’t identify these cars and only Tesla announces how many sold (I may have missed the reportings)

  • very few of the drivers of those cars rarely engaged the Level 2 features, and/or

  • likely. Only Tesla releases data on the utilization of its level 2 features but does so only in aggregate terms that don’t allow for correction of sampling bias associated with engagement in “easy” driving conditions versus “challenging” driving conditions.

  • enormous under counting

  • likely, only Tesla has the opportunity to either “know all” or sample effectively because of their OtA monitoring of its vehicles. Everyone else has conveniently kept their heads in the sand. Mercedes didn’t report any; however, during that period I think my Intelligent Cruise Control and Lane Centering were engaged when I hit a deer. Mercedes must not have been watching me, I didn’t report it and I didn’t get the memo that informed me to do anything.

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