Safety and Convenience Aren't Bad, Right?

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Sue Happy: IHS relies heavily on real-world crash data. She says safety systems, automatic emergency breaking, have proven safety benefits. But when it comes down to some of these other features, it gets a little bit murkier she says. Sue Happy: Automakers that previously may have used the term safety and convenience interchangeably are maybe because they're understanding future liability issues.

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.