Alex Roy, Ed Niedermeyer and Kirsten Corasek join the Autonicast. They're here to talk about Consumer Reports' new evaluation of driver assistance systems. Kelly Funkhauser, El Patron, is also a guest on this week's show. She'll be talking about her work at Consumer Reports regarding all things driver assistance.
Consumer Reports vehicle technology maven and friend of the show Kelly Funkhouser returns to discuss CR's new rankings for active driver assistance systems, the class of systems pioneered by Tesla Autopilot. Kelly explains why the ranking emphasizes collaborative and driver monitoring features over automation, how critical these elements are to the safety of such systems, where her work ranking them will go from here, and much more.