Humans Intervened Every 9 Minutes in Aaa Test of Driver Assists

That kinda sucks. OTOH, if I set a 00:08:50 Timer on my iPhone to remind me when to look up, I can still get a lot of work done.

On my fairly driver-assist-maxed-out 2025 hybrid in city traffic, I intervene the most at every red stoplight where I’m the first car thus requiring manual breaking, then next most intervene if I wait long enough at any red stoplight to enter waiting mode, which shuts down the car and requires restart.

The most dangerous situation is if a car enters my lane (maybe cutting me off) and then immediately moves to the next lane over, all while traveling at speed. The safety systems sees the new car entry at speed, but doesn’t look past to see the line of stopped cars the new car’s action shielded from view until it requires an emergency stop when discovering the stopped cars too late. Or manual braking by the driver since you know that’s going to happen.

Entering into a turning lane can be as bad when there are stopped cars, since the car sensor isn’t pointed at the turning lane until it is too late to detect stopped cars in that lane. Again requiring preemptive manual breaking.

Still quite useful when you get the hang of it. Makes long trips much less exhausting.