ADAS Technology
ADAS Technology
Prevents wheels locking up during heavy braking, allowing a driver to keep steering while braking heavily.
Watch the video about EBA
Can prevent a collision by applying more braking when the pedal ins't fully depressed.
Watch the video about EBA
Technology to improve a vehicles stability when traction is lost.
Watch the video about ESC
Can apply the brake automatically if a collision is imminent and a driver has failed to intervene.
Watch the video about AEB
Uses cameras and satellite to identify speed limit signs.
Watch the video about ISA
Works like traditional Cruise Control but with the ability to keep you at a safe distance to traffic ahead of you.
Watch the video about ACC
Will alert the driver if their vehicle is leaving a marked lane without using indicators or is drifting out of their lane.
Watch the video about LDW
Uses cameras and sensors to detect whether a vehicle is veering from the middle of their lane and helps the driver steer back
Watch the video about Steering Assist
Uses the painted lines of the road to keep the car in it's lane.
Watch the video about LKA
Helps drivers to change lane and warns them of approaching vehicles in their blind spots.
Watch the video about LCA
Uses cameras and sensors to detect objects and people and react appropriately.
Watch the video about this
Sensors and steering wheel analysis, monitor a driver's attentiveness and will warn them to take a break. They effectively monitor how long a driver has been driving for and how the steering wheel is being operated.
When activated, transmits your vehicles location including your direction of travel whilst contacting a 999 operator. This can be activate automatically by sensors ( in the event of a collision) or manually when the eCall / SOS button is pressed.
Watch the video about eCall / SOS
ADAS is ever evolving, along with all the other responsibilities you have of being a driving instructor, it will also be your responsibility to know when new ADAS technology is released and introduced to vehicles. You'll need to know what each one does. If you are unsure, then do some research.
Your clients may be relying on your to fully explain how particular technology will assist them or keep them safer.
1. Find out what your pupils know.
Over their learning period, you will gradually introduce particular items such as cruise control, lane assist, speed limiter, let them experience ABS working.
But, having shown them how they work, also get them to use these items as part of your everyday lessons.
The risk to look out for is mainly unfamiliarity of location of the technology and taking their eyes off the road to engage it.
Be on the ball as back up!
If you are not teaching this technology and getting your pupils used to it, it will mean that they will not have familiarity of it once they pass their test.
That will mean their eyes will come off the road looking for it when there is no additional assistance to potentially keep them safe.
Even the basics of the show and tell doe not cover all the different positions of where air can be distributed around the cabin of the car, and if set to the wrong position when the windscreen mists up could be dangerous if your pupil does not know how to change it safely.
Coaching plays a huge part of someone taking responsibility for their own actions and finding a resolve themselves.
Instruction has a place when someone really doesn't understand how to do something and needs guidance. But coaching takes things to another level, it makes your pupils think for themselves. Through effective questions, most pupils can find an answer for themselves.
How can you make the air from the heater controls blow onto the windscreen rather than by our feet? (Mix the location it blows as much as you like).
When it is safe to do so can you select the cruise control and set the speed at 60mph
Talk me through how you you would set the cruise control up.
What needs to happen to disengage the cruise control? ( Possibly just brake pedal, possibly clutch pedal, possibly either or brake or clutch, or just by switching it off)
How might cruise control assist us in this situation?
What would be the benefit of using the speed limiter in this area of reduced speed road works?
How else might using the speed limiter be beneficial?
What is the purpose of ABS?
Obviously there are a multitude of questions you could ask about this subject. See if you can think of some that you may ask your pupil's.
