When we talk about AVs, we usually imagine fully driverless vehicles. But in reality, we have cars, which require a driver, but still provide some automated features.
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has developed a scale of six levels of automation:
- Level 0: The driver handles the steering, acceleration, and braking of the vehicle. The features at this level can only provide warnings and immediate assistance to the driver's actions. Examples of features of this level include the following:
- A lane departure warning simply warns the driver when the vehicle has crossed one of the lane markings.
- A blind spot warning warns the driver when another vehicle is located in the blind spot area of the car (the area immediately left or right of the rear end of the vehicle).
- Level 1: Features that provide either steering or acceleration/braking assistance...
