Dirk: The system is designed to drive you down the highway and keep you in the lane. It's also designed to do that with hands free. If you feel like touching the wheel or providing some input to the system, we cana. We allow the driver to input that pork int steering wheel - allowing them to have that blended control. When you engage the engage testle system, which has generated many complaints, and you want to change lanes, you have to disengage the system. And during lane changes, let yous say, some suboptimal outcomes. I enjoy the system, but i'm aware of its limitations.
Public perceptions of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems have been dominated by Tesla's Autopilot, which presents itself as the most advanced Level 2 system by virtue of being more automated than others. But is more automation always better for driver assistance? Seeking answers, Alex and Ed sit down with Nick Sitarski and Derek Caveney of Toyota Motor North America, to understand how Toyota's long-standing principle of jidoka, or human-centered automation, has taken its Teammate ADAS design in a different direction.