S4WRXTTCS
Well-Known Member
Humans are incredibly ingenious at finding ways to do stupid things and the least safe part of every car is the person responsible for operating it.
I agree with this, but there is a LOT of low hanging fruit in how much bad behavior a proper driver monitoring system can prevent.
It prevents people from texting on their cell phones while having an L2 system engaged. This one is really important because L2 systems give the perception that its safe to text. We've even had people on TMC admit that the reason they got into accident while on AP was because they were using their cell phone.
The only way to defeat distracted is using a proper driver monitoring system.
I'm sure lots of inventive people will figure out hacks to defeat these systems, but if the hacks are sufficiently complicated than most people won't bother.
Europe is going to be require all cars to have a proper driver monitoring system be 2023. So why wouldn't we simply follow their lead?
Now I can understand being hesitant in following Europe's lead because their also going to require cars to obey electronically set speed limits. I think you can temporarily override it, but for the most part they're going to not allow people to exceed the speed limit.
I can't see the US adopting that because a big part of the US car culture is the freedom of the open road. We still want to be cowboys despite the fact that the world has changed.