A car that beeps when I drift out of lane, or beeps when I go too fast before a curve, or beeps like hell if I cross over the center median would be hugely useful, because a record of every warning would be there, whether correct or not.
Conversely, if it didn't warn me right before an accident, then the absence of that warning would be useful too.
All of that information should be put back into the model based on crash reporting. Everything else can be ignored.
I would argue that the information should be available to all automakers (perhaps using the NHTSA as a conduit), so that each of them have the same safety information, but can still develop their own models. The FAA actually does this already with the FAA Accident and Incident Data Systems [0] and it has worked pretty darn well.
The new Toyota RAV4's have this feature-- if you go out of bounds in your lane they beep and the steer5ing wheel gives a bit of resistance.
It also reads the speed limit signs and places a reminder in the display. I think it can brake if it detects something in front of it, but I'm not certain.
My main point (perhaps buried more than it should have been) is that by centralizing accident data along with whether an alert went off (or not), and sharing that with all automobile manufacturers can help this process proceed better.
Right now the data is highly fragmented and there is not really a common objective metric by which to make decisions to improve models.
Conversely, if it didn't warn me right before an accident, then the absence of that warning would be useful too.
All of that information should be put back into the model based on crash reporting. Everything else can be ignored.
I would argue that the information should be available to all automakers (perhaps using the NHTSA as a conduit), so that each of them have the same safety information, but can still develop their own models. The FAA actually does this already with the FAA Accident and Incident Data Systems [0] and it has worked pretty darn well.
[0] - https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100:2:::NO:::