Critical Areas in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Safety: Point of Sale and Crash Reporting

Automated assistive vehicle technologies vary from simple alerts to partially automated driving tasks that are increasingly available in today’s vehicles. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) seek to alert a driver to critical events (e.g., forward collision warning) or even intervene (e.g., emergency braking, lane-keeping steering) to prevent crashes. These technologies, however, are not available equally across the passenger vehicle fleet, nor is there standardization in how they are marketed to potential buyers or demonstrated at point of sale, including by increasingly popular online “dealerships” like Vroom and Carvana. The proliferation of ADAS has also outpaced current crash investigation forms. The current Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria includes limited guidance on crash avoidance technologies and most state crash reports do not include ADAS variables. Realizing the full benefit of ADAS relies on salespeople, consumers, and law enforcement understanding their benefits and limitations in improving traffic safety. This project investigated the state of knowledge and current practices on how ADAS technologies are marketed and sold, how ADAS are notated in crash reports, and what existing crash data reveal about ADAS in crash involvement to help illuminate and address gaps in current pre-sale and post-crash ADAS research.

• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/73264
• Dataset URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/73409
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program. Supporting dataset available at: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/73409
• Corporate Authors:

  Safety Through Disruption University Transportation Center (Safe-D)

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
  College Station, TX  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Goddard, Tara B
  • 0000-0003-4642-4020
• Publication Date: 2023-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 30p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash data; Crash reports; Driver support systems; Marketing; Purchasing; Sales
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01908460
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 06-003
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747115
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 20 2024 9:14AM