The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending standardized performance requirements for automated vehicle technologies after determining that an “overreliance” of these systems contributed to two fatal crashes.We recently covered the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) making some broad claims about how added driver assistance features meant improved safety. The NTSB seems to be indicating the opposite, citing two fatal crashes that involved Ford’s BlueCruise system.For those unfamiliar, BlueCruise is a driver assistance feature equipped to certain models that allows hands-free driving on select highways. The system has gotten a fair bit of praise in the past. However, like Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD), it has become the subject of criticism from the National Transportation Safety Board.The federal safety agency recently published a paper ( h/t AutoGuide) calling for “standardized performance require …
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Author: Matt Posky
