Enlarge / GM’s Super Cruise system is tightly geofenced to divided-lane highways and only operates if the system can determine that the human in the driver’s seat will be paying attention to the road ahead, ready to respond if there’s a problem. (credit: General Motors) On Thursday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced that […]
Enlarge / Before anyone else runs to the comments to point it out, almost no adaptive cruise control systems will engage at speeds above 95 mph. (credit: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images) Another day, another Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study looking at how people are using advanced driver assistance systems. Like the study we covered on […]
Enlarge / Would you notice if a large pink bear in a high-vis vest drove past you on the highway? (credit: IIHS) Depending on your perspective, the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that are appearing in more and more new cars are either a panacea for an epidemic of distracted driving or a reaction to […]
Enlarge / A Volvo XC90 SUV following a crash test in Sweden. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) At the end of January, safety researchers at the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety published a study showing that small increases in speed have big consequences during a crash. After crashing three identical […]