While drivers were confident in adaptive cruise control performance, lane centering systems did not inspire driver trust.
Current systems designed to keep vehicles from drifting over the center line or onto the shoulder still don’t all work well enough to inspire trust, according to a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
Based on the results of brief test drives by 20 of their co-workers, IIHS researchers found that most drivers were relatively confident in the performance of adaptive cruise control systems, that adjust the vehicle’s speed to maintain a minimum following distance from the vehicle
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