Are You Putting So Much Technology Into These Systems?

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Soyou: Why why put so much technology into the driver, a monitoring piece of it? Soyou: Ultimately, if there's a crash, like it's their fault. Soyou: We want to reduce traffic fatalities, and we want to make a more pleasurable driving experience for people. The lessons we learn on these technologies, we can apply those to future technologies.

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.