Tesla didn't start calling adapter cruise control and and and link keep assist a safety feature until after the Josh Brown death. Prior to that, there had been autopilot safety features, which every car had; they were like E B and FCW on made emergency braking for a collision warning. And what we now all call autopilot was originally sold as a convenience feature. Tesla started to change our language around that after the first reported death.
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.