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Safety In The Loop: David Harkey, President of IIHS, on Level 2 Safety Principles

February 01, 2022 • Partners for Automated Vehicle Education • Season 1 • Episode 5

The Insurance Institutes of Highway Safety is one of the premiere auto safety organizations in America, drawing on massive amounts of insurance industry data to analyze and address road safety issues.

IIHS President David Harkey joins the PAVECast to discuss one of the most important and misunderstood issues at the intersection of automation and road safety: the safety issues related to human factors in the partially-automated Level 2 driver assistance systems available on today’s cars.

Harkey walks us through IIHS’s recently-announced seven principles for Level 2 system design, explores the psychological factors and behavioral risks underlying them, and explains where this important work is headed.