AAA Study Shows Interference In Driving From Active Driving Assistance Systems

You’ve seen the commercials ushering the future of driving with active driving assistance systems in many new cars. These types of systems will warn you if you are veering out of your lane or those that allow the car the ability to slow down or speed up without any action from the driver being necessary. Systems like these are at the forefront of the technology boom in auto manufacturing, but are they really as helpful as we are led to believe?

If an active driving assistance system fails to do what it is intended to do, AAA has found it often interferes with the safety of a vehicle. When you’re driving and relying on this type of system you may be setting yourself up to be involved in a Connecticut auto accident.

The study by AAA found that these types of systems failed, on average, every 8 miles of real world driving. That is a dangerously high amount of failure for systems that are supposed to keep you safe. The dangers become compounded if the systems have given the driver a false sense of security and therefore they have become disengaged from driving.

Manufacturers have been encouraged to stop implementing this type of technology into their vehicles until they have had more time to test them adequately. As it stands now, the results of the study showed that in real world driving 73% of system errors produced lane departures or erratic lane position. When tested on a closed course the study found that most systems acted as expected until faced with a broken down vehicle which resulted in an accident 66% of the time at an average speed of 25mph.

Relying on these assistant technologies in your vehicle can prove to be dangerous in a real world driving scenario. If you’ve been injured in a Connecticut auto accident and suspect that one of these features was to blame, contact our office for a review of your case.