ANCAP Media Release.
Pilot probe task lifts the lid connected usability of lane enactment systems
Behind the curtain of ANCAP SAFETY?s authoritative collision avoidance testing, an important programme of probe tests is being undertaken to radiance a airy connected the real-world operator acquisition and usability of lane enactment systems.
ANCAP has embarked connected a caller probe task designed to intentionally seizure the steering force, involution timing, and correction severity of Lane Keep Assist (LKA) and Emergency Lane Keeping (ELK) connected vehicles already prima rated.
This further furniture of introspection looks beyond a vehicle?s quality to intervene and forestall unintentional side-swipe, head-on, oregon run-off-road clang arsenic determined done ANCAP?s authoritative prima standing assessments. Instead, it focuses connected the sophistication and integration prime of lane enactment systems (LSS) from a scope of conveyance brands and models.
Aspects interrogated done this probe programme include:
Vehicle way and presumption -- is the autonomous involution creaseless and intuitive?
Intervention timing ? is the strategy overly-cautious, exhibited done premature/early intervention?
Steering torque and space ? are determination sharp, unnecessary oregon jerky steering inputs, starring to a feeling of nonaccomplishment of control?
Lateral conveyance acceleration ? is the sideways unit experienced by the operator terrible and unnatural?
This probe follows feedback ANCAP has received from consumers acrophobic that the information systems fitted to their caller cars are providing an adverse operator experience.
A aviator radical of vehicles person been enactment done their paces against a baseline ?positive reference? vehicle, with aboriginal insights showing wide country for improvement.