Vehicle technology is causing bad driving, study says

“Things like parallel parking, timely braking, cruise control and navigation have all been taken out of the drivers control by automated car systems. An Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) report from 2018 determined that drivers tend to change their behavior when using automated parking technology. Joseph Young, IIHS spokesman, said when considering the correlation between driving habits and technology, it’s important to distinguish between crash avoidance features and partially automated systems that take over some driving tasks. For example, automatic emergency braking systems (AEB) cut rates of rear-end crashes by about half.”He added that there is some concern that partially automated driving systems are leading to inattention among some drivers. A new study sponsored by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that ADAS technologies currently available to U.S. consumers are anticipated to prevent 37 million crashes, 14 million injuries, and nearly 250,000 deaths.