Mercedez-Benz’s GLE rated as Europe’s safest automated vehicle

With advancing technology, many new cars come equipped with automated features that appear to give them some degree of autonomous capability. The problem is, all these systems are slightly different and that has caused confusion and danger, and in some cases led to fatalities. Vehicle safety testing house and ratings firms, Thatcham Research and Euro NCAP, have been monitoring these new advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and today release their first ever ratings of automated lane-keeping systems (ALKS). That’s a lot of acronyms so let’s break this down. Thatcham has been researching how effective and safe systems like Tesla’s Autopilot…

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