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Your driver-assist system may be out of alignment... with your understanding of how it works

  • Written by Steve Casner, Research Psychologist, NASA
imageAdvanced driver-assist systems can lull drivers into taking their hands off the wheel and eyes off the road when they shouldn't.Jakob Härter/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Adaptive cruise control, lane change assistance, collision avoidance, blind spot monitoring, autopilots: These are just a few of the driver-assist features that are arriving in new cars....

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