Advanced Driving Safety Digital Accessories Tutorial +VIDEO

Auto Central March 18, 2016; While the prospect of completely autonomous, driverless cars continues to grab the headlines, a quiet revolution is already fundamentally altering our vehicles. The availability and sophistication of new automotive-safety systems, collectively known as advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), have been changing how cars are operated and experienced. More and more vehicles already boast features that assist drivers and eliminate errors, including blind-spot and lane-departure warning systems, automatic emergency braking, lane-change assistance, drowsiness alerts, and bird’s-eye displays.

Ultimately, the proliferation of these features could provide a route to (semi-)autonomous cars—and even help prepare vehicles for a fully autonomous world.1 Yet our research finds that to capture the ADAS opportunity fully, car manufacturers and car dealers must explain the systems’ features more actively, carefully define and satisfy customer preferences, and price the technology appropriately, on customer value. Companies that do this well are likely to be strongly positioned to capture additional economic benefits, drive brand differentiation, and advance toward the deployment of even more autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles.

The Auto Channel would like to thank Infiniti for the use of their well thought-out descriptive videos explaining and demonstrating some of the ubiquitously available new car optional and standard equipped new vehicles Advanced Driver-assistance Systems (ADAS).

Infiniti Technologies

Active Lane Control

Active Lane Control uses a camera-based system to enhance lane-keeping capability. The system is included as part of the Lane Departure Prevention system, not only adjusting for unintended lane drift, but also making finer adjustments for minor road surface changes or crosswinds (as detected by the camera-based, lane marker detection system).

The system goes beyond the traditional Lane Departure Prevention system, taking it a step further by not only evaluating the road ahead (the camera is located above the rearview mirror) for unintended lane drift but also by making small steering input angle adjustments if the Q50 undergoes minor direction changes due to road surface changes or crosswinds (as detected by the lane marker detection system). By reducing the need for steering input for the driver, the driver's effort may be reduced.

"The beauty of these advanced systems is to allow a more personal driving experience, with more input when desired and less intrusion of road imperfections in the steering wheel," said Infiniti Motor Company President Johan de Nysschen. "These are just the start of a range of future technologies that are becoming a point of differentiation for our Infiniti customers."

Around View® Monitor

Infiniti was first to offer an Around View® Monitor on the 2008 Infiniti EX35, a four-corner, virtual 360-degree, bird's-eye view of the vehicle when parking. This driver aid was later enhanced by adding Moving Object Detection, which can help alert drivers to the presence of animals, pedestrians or other moving objects around the parking vehicle.

Around View® Monitor with Front and Rear Sonar System includes the advanced Moving Object Detection (MOD) system. Around View® Monitor uses four small superwide-angle cameras – mounted on the front, side and rear of the vehicle – to provide a virtual 360° view of objects around the vehicle, helping to maneuver it in tight spots.

Backup Collision Intervention (BCI)

Seeing the world differently is often considered a prerequisite for invention. Before you can change the world, you need a unique vision. A unique vision is also a way to describe Infiniti's Backup Collision Intervention (BCI) system, a world's first technology.

With the Backup Collision Intervention technology, when the transmission is in reverse, the Infiniti JX will help the driver detect crossing vehicles and objects behind the JX, and, if necessary, the system can automatically engage the brakes to help avoid a collision.

Blind Spot Intervention (BSI)

Infiniti introduced Blind Spot Intervention® (BSI) on the 2011 Infiniti M. Engineered to alert the driver of a vehicle in the adjacent lane during lane change maneuvers, BSI can help the driver bring the vehicle back into the lane.

Direct Adaptive Steering

Direct Adaptive Steering™ is the world's first production steer-by-wire system, providing new levels of control, precision and adaptability. The system uses advanced electronics to streamline the steering mechanism for a more precise feeling behind the wheel.

Developed after more than 10 years of research, Direct Adaptive Steering™ allows independent control of the Q50's tire angle and steering inputs, transmitting the driver's intentions to the wheels faster than a mechanical system. This increases the direct driving performance feel by quickly and intelligently communicating road surface feedback to the driver. Over uneven roads, for example, this moderates the need for constant, subtle adjustment, imparting a commanding feeling while helping shield the driver from excessive road vibrations.

While systems such as Direct Adaptive Steering™ will be critical in future autonomous vehicle designs, Infiniti Q50 owners are realizing a real benefit today in the system's ability to customize steering settings according the driver preference and road conditions. The system allows the driver to change both steering effort and the steering gear ratio.

Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC)

The Infiniti Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) system works like a standard cruise control with the added feature of maintaining a selected distance from the vehicle in front of you. The ICC system offers two cruise control modes:

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Distance Control Mode

Vehicle-to-vehicle distance control mode maintains a selected distance between you and the vehicle in front of you. The distance to the vehicle ahead can be selected at any time depending on the traffic conditions. Each time the "Distance" switch is pushed, the set distance will change to long, middle, short and back to long again in that sequence. The distance to the vehicle ahead will change according to the vehicle speed; the higher the vehicle speed, the longer the distance. If the vehicle in front is traveling slower than your set speed, the ICC will automatically match that vehicle's speed. Once the road ahead clears, the ICC will resume your set speed automatically.

Conventional (Fixed Speed) Mode

Conventional, or fixed speed, cruise control mode is for cruising at a preset speed.

Lane Departure Warning