US research suggests partial autonomy yields positive economic benefit

Fully automated vehicles may represent the end game for many but the building blocks towards that - partially automated technology - could provide considerable economic and social benefits as well. Researchers from the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering sought to put a dollar figure on it. Specifically, they took a closer look at the question of whether or not it was economically advantageous to speed up deployment of such partially autonomous technologies as lane departure warnings, blind sport monitoring and forward collision crash avoidance systems in the US market.