assistance overload – curse or blessing –

Growing complexity as a comfort killer

In practice, many assistance systems are still not intuitive to operate or do not act in a self-explanatory way.
The added value of an electronic assistance system is then no longer apparent, on the contrary: the system itself becomes a stress factor.
However, there are also many drivers who do not even know which electronic assistants are on board, let alone how to set them. A possible way out of this dilemma is offered by more automated driving and integrated cockpit and operating concepts. Then they actually relieve the driver. The distance cruise control then knows exactly what the lane departure warning system is doing and vice versa.
Greater automation also benefits professional drivers. Especially for drivers of trucks and vans in city centres and at depots, automated and autonomous driving functions bring huge advantages.