Increased risk of accidents due to partially autonomous driving!

Researchers of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) found out that partially autonomous Driving the driver's concentration impaired. In a study, the scientists found that the longer they drove, the more the subjects' attention decreased semi-automatic systems used. The participants in the study increasingly took their hands off the steering wheel and let themselves be distracted by the infotainment of the car or their smartphone. At the, in cooperation with the MIT Age Lab conducted, study entitled "Field test on inattentiveness through partial automation" was that driving behavior examined by 20 test persons. The participants used one as part of the study adaptive cruise control system with more automatic Distance control and partly also the assistance function Pilot assist. While at the beginning of the test phase when the test subjects took over their car, hardly any differences related to the distraction in the cockpit, this changed after about a month.

after 30 days: increased tendency to distract

From then on, the study participants showed a increased tendency get distracted while driving and inattentive to be. The more autonomous driving functions they used, the more often they took their hands off the steering wheel. Especially with a combination of ACC with the Pilot assist the scientists could decline of mindfulness behind the wheel. As a conclusion, the IIHS researchers noted that that semi-autonomous driving makes drivers inattentive. Through this reduce the driver's concentration increases, especially if they have got used to the support provided by the assistance systems. In order not to cause a decrease in road safety through the partial automation of driving, the researchers recommend the manufacturers Surveillance systems to be built into the cars. These should especially check the driver's head and eye position.

Of course that had not been the case.

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