The return to lane feature only works if you start to drift into the other lane, not if you actively turn into the other lane, or supply any other common control input to let the system know you are in fact paying attention.
This sounds good, but it must WORK.
Its not too hard to distinguish an alert driver at the wheel from someone nodding off, because a normal driver supplies 10 to 30 small control movements to the steering wheel per minute (Steering Reversal Rate), and these are typically Greater than 2 degrees and less than 6 degrees regardless of road curvature or lack there of. Once this rate falls to less than 5 reversals per minute, the car's computer can assume from this single measurement alone that the driver is getting drowsy, and when there are almost no reversals at all, that the driver has fallen asleep.
That sounds good too, if it works. Billions of us humans use these vehicles to engage in random activity that resembles organized movement. I want to know how many vehicles have used this protocol, how many accidents they have had, and how many have been reported as "vehicle error" before I will consider buying a vehicle with this option. The command protocol to help correct 'deficient' driving behavior described by icebike sounds sane when I read it here on Slashdot, but the idea of any situation where my vehicle fails to respond to my commands when I am DRIVING MY CAR I believe is VERY dangerous to me and the other meatbags around me.
So the mere presence of control frequent movements on the wheel would sufficient to distinguish an intentional lane cross from an unintentional one.
If not, people die.
There is a large amount of research already available on the web about his stuff. Google steering wheel reversal rate. This stuff has been known and measured for decades.
Does the hardware support the protocol to the level of trust required to mass produce? We shall see.
This technology sounds promising, but I won't buy one yet. I need to see how those early adopter Ford Fusion autopilots do first. And I'll be watching every new Fusion extra careful from now on....
Your ignorance proves you're too lazy to google "climate change raw data", but doesn't prove that the IPCC broke some as-yet-unspecified law.
Lol. Why don't you Google it. Link the published data and methods, or stop wasting my time...
Put up or shut up.
If you can find them, you'll be famous...
Why not? Who is more authoritative, and why?
wattsupwiththat is. They don't illegally hide their data or methods like the IPCC does.
Duh...
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"