Driver Monitoring

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The missing thing, and you would talk about it on the show, for many years, is a transition monitoring system. And I think that your report is just tip of the iceberg and the first of its kind to actually move towards that discussion. What was the best party at the Consumer Show this year? There were some good ones out there,. But there was one outside Palazzo that was like the penthouse at Las Vegas.

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.