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Increasing Situational Awareness to Decrease Danger
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by Jeremy Laukkonen 94
Updated June 03, 2019

Automotive safety technology is pretty easy to wrap your head around, but advanced driver
assistance systems (ADAS) are a little harder to pin down. At this point, the debate over whether
anti-lock brakes are really necessary is pretty much nonexistent, but many technologies
classified as ADAS are still seen as luxuries or even amusing curiosities.

The issue is that advanced driver assistance systems are systems and features that provide a
driver with essential information, automate difficult or repetitive tasks, with the goal of
engendering an overall increase in car safety for everyone on the road. Since these systems are
so varied, it isn't always easy to see how some of them actually relate to safety.

Some advanced driver assistance systems have been around for a long time, and they have
already proven time and time again to result in an improved driving experience or better overall
road safety. GPS navigation, for example, has become increasingly common in OEM
infotainment systems since first being introduced in the 1990s. You won't find a lot of drivers
longing for the days of paper maps, but other advanced driver technologies seem a little more
esoteric.

Many advanced driver assistance systems are right on the bleeding edge of emerging
automotive technologies, and the jury is actually still out on some of them. Some of these
systems will have the staying power to stick around, and you can expect to see at least a few of
them in your next car. Others may fizzle and disappear or be replaced by better
implementations of the same basic idea. Since ADAS rely on electronics and often include
 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Search GO

HOW TO › CAR TECH

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Increasing Situational Awareness to Decrease Danger
Share
Share Pin
Pin Email
Email PRINT

mejnak/Getty Images

by Jeremy Laukkonen 94
Updated June 03, 2019

Automotive safety technology is pretty easy to wrap your head around, but advanced driver
assistance systems (ADAS) are a little harder to pin down. At this point, the debate over whether
anti-lock brakes are really necessary is pretty much nonexistent, but many technologies
classified as ADAS are still seen as luxuries or even amusing curiosities.

The issue is that advanced driver assistance systems are systems and features that provide a
driver with essential information, automate difficult or repetitive tasks, with the goal of
engendering an overall increase in car safety for everyone on the road. Since these systems are
so varied, it isn't always easy to see how some of them actually relate to safety.

Some advanced driver assistance systems have been around for a long time, and they have
already proven time and time again to result in an improved driving experience or better overall
road safety. GPS navigation, for example, has become increasingly common in OEM
infotainment systems since first being introduced in the 1990s. You won't find a lot of drivers
longing for the days of paper maps, but other advanced driver technologies seem a little more
esoteric.

Many advanced driver assistance systems are right on the bleeding edge of emerging
automotive technologies, and the jury is actually still out on some of them. Some of these
systems will have the staying power to stick around, and you can expect to see at least a few of
them in your next car. Others may fizzle and disappear or be replaced by better
implementations of the same basic idea. Since ADAS rely on electronics and often include
firmware elements, the development of these cutting-edge systems is governed by
international safety standards like IEC-61508 and ISO-26262.

Advanced driver assistance systems are tweaked every year, but here are thirteen different
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