On Sweden’s streets, about five million passenger cars roll, and today’s vehicles are becoming increasingly technically advanced. In the newer cars there are several systems whose purpose is to increase security and reduce the risk of accidents. But according to a survey that Folksam has done, it is almost 40 percent of car owners who actively turn off the systems. The explanations are many, including a negative impact on the driving experience and pure lack of knowledge, that you do not understand how they work. – Although it feels unusual and maybe a little uncomfortable when the steering wheel vibrates or jerks, it is important to use the systems. Studies have, for example, shown that File Shiping Warnings could halve the number of single and meeting accidents where the driver involuntarily crosses either the side or center line, says Maria Klingegård, traffic researcher at Folksam, in a press release. Warning for excessively calm but there is another side of the coin. According to traffic expert Jeanette Jedbäck Hindenburg, who has taken off a Norwegian survey, the security systems can also cause purely traffic -hazardous situations. – The support systems can cause you to relax and that the thoughts walk, that you instead think about what to cook for dinner. This means that when something may happen, you are surprised which can lead to misjudgments, she tells TV4 News. A concrete occasion when the support systems can become a traffic hazard is on snow -covered roads. Then the so -called file maintenance support, which keeps the car continuously in the correct file, cannot read the invisible road markings. – Then you can be very surprised that the car itself makes its own decisions. For example, the car may think that the road goes straight ahead, when it actually swings. When you turn, the car can instead try to straighten itself. For those who are above, it can be a little nasty that the car pulls itself. As a reaction, you can be scared and make an unexpected powerful movement, which causes the car to get a cord, says Jeanette Jedbäck Hindenburg. The “clear position” the traffic expert explains that we are currently in a “clear position”, in a transitional phase between cars with some support and fully automated cars. – When we are solely responsible for driving, we sharpen ourselves. But when the car takes over the driving, then with the help of a kind of AI that makes all decisions, we do not have to act at all. The interim we are in right now is difficult for the motorist, says Jeanette Jedbäck Hindenburg. Both the traffic expert and Folksam believe that car manufacturers need to sharpen the systems in order for them to become more user -friendly and efficient. – In order to get drivers not to actively turn off the systems, both the level of knowledge and the driving experience need to be better, says Maria Klingegård at Folksam.
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