Is the Meter on the Dashboard an Indicator of the Driver's Confidence?

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There is no personization from the drive mon ame, there is not. But the system itself does provide different levels of feedback depending on what the scene is that the car is currently seeing understood. So you can imagine it being like confidence. If the system is highly confident, maybe you can have more freedom with the the hands off the wheel. We tryo give the drivers as much warning as we can if something's going to happen.

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.