Is There a Difference Between Hands on and Hands Off?

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The presence of hands on is clearly safer than hands off. The awareness of ODD, like where it with the system should be used or not, and what happens when you reach the boundary. And we'll literally we'll need another episode to discuss all these questions. Alex: How do we describe and name this stuff a shout out to clearing the confusion? We're trying to answer that for consumers.

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.