The eyesight of Subaru was his time ahead, but is it behind? – Jalopnik

Subaru introduceerde de gezichtssuite van het veiligheidssysteem aan Amerikaanse klanten op Legacy- en Outback -modellen op de New York International Auto Show 2013. EyeSight was een van de eerste en, belangrijker nog, de meest betaalbare geavanceerde systeem voor het veiligheidsassistent van de bestuurder (ADA’s) die beschikbaar zijn in de VS, waarbij de weg werd vrijgesproken voor niveau 2 autonome rijproducten zoals Ford’s Copilot360 in 2018 (ultimately Ford’s more advanced ADAS system would be mentioned with such a headstart, Subaru would still be at the market in 2015. Cut edge of self -driving software, but it is lost its lead. The eyesight is no longer on the bleeding edge of technological progress; it is in the middle of the peloton.

The eyesight was really for his time, in the past. From 2008 perfected on Japanese roads, the system was one of the first to brake adaptive cruise control, pre-collision and the departure of the vehicle strip in one safety suite. In 2014, Subaru improved the “vision” of the vision with color stereom cameras, which would see the Subaru obstacles much further forward. Eyenight was, if not autonomous driving, at least one step in that direction.

Nowadays, Eyesight owners offers adaptive cruise control with lane, lane expenses, automatic emergency control, active transverse trade on the back, pre-collision braking and gas management and more. That may seem like a lot, but it fades compared to, for example, Dodge’s active driving assistance, which offers all this, plus hands -free driving on certain roads, plus driver monitoring to ensure that people stay awake behind the wheel. Mercedes-Benz offers level 3 on its ADAS system, drive pilot, although only on certain models, on certain roads in California and Nevada. In fact A Consumer reports Test from 2023 Bring Subaru closer to the soil in ADAS options.

So what did other car manufacturers put kilometers ahead on the road laid down for the first time by the medium -sized Japanese automaker? The way CR sees it lost subaru points when it comes to detecting and responding to non -responding drivers. The Subaru system excludes the lane assistant when it detects a driver is out of use, but not the adaptive cruise control. Adaptive cruise control keeps your car at a certain distance from the car at the front, while the lane assistance does what is on the label it helps to keep your car in a lane. The Subaru system eliminates the lane assistance, but keeps the adaptive cruise control at a fixed speed without slowing down the car or navigating to a shoulder, which can be dangerous.

However, a newly updated version of the eyesight promises to catch Subaru. JD Power Reports that the new, improved eyesight, which debuted at the New York International Auto Show 2025, easily knew the qualifications of level 2 that are reached by car manufacturers such as Tesla’s Autopilot and Ford’s BlueCruise. The improved eyesight will first be offered on the people-as-very 2026 outbacks, getting a bump thanks to the addition of radar sensors. Although less powerful than Lidar, considered the industrial gold standard technology for self-driving cars, it is an improvement compared to the camera approach of the automaker and keeps the costs affordable.

The new eyesight picks up the problems that consumer reports have noticed with his new emergency stop assistant, who will persuade the car, activates the hazard lights, unlocks the doors and calls emergency services when it detects that the driver does not respond when using adaptive cruise control. So although Subaru was possibly hit by other car manufacturers in the years 2010 and 2020, the automaker certainly seems to catch up.