Subaru EyeSight scheme Adds Lane-Keeping aid, More Autonomous Functionality

Subaru made mild swell last year when it broadcast it would offer a somewhat low-cost suite of driver-assistance technologies dubbed EyeSight in the 2013 Legacy and Outback (the kit later amplified to the 2014 Forester‘s choice sheet). The stereoscopic camera–based scheme endowed adaptive cruise control, pre-collision self-acting braking, collision warning, and lane-departure alert, but its operating variety was fairly limited contrasted to the radar- and sonar-based schemes used by pricier luxury brands. Now, Subaru’s back with the second-generation EyeSight system, and it’s advanced on the original’s capability while supplementing more functions.


For those not familiar with Subie’s stereoscopic camera setup, it works like this: a two of forward-facing cameras climbed on at each edge of the rearview mirror “see” what’s in front of the vehicle. By angling the cameras relative to one another and stitching their feeds simultaneously, the system’s mind gains a rudimentary pattern of depth insight, and therefore object recognition. For its second proceed, EyeSight has inherited the proficiency to glimpse hue. Before, the system’s “eyes” glimpsed the world in black-and-white dog dream; with hue, the setup’s proficiency to discern its enclosures is boosted by a asserted 40-percent boost in viewing bend and expanse.

This enhancement is critical, because one of EyeSight’s key limitations contrasted to a accepted radar-based scheme is its viewing expanse and answer value. Stereoscopic cameras can’t see as far as radar or process what they’re glimpsing as rapidly. supplementing color permits Subaru to up EyeSight’s functioning speeds, endowing self-acting pre-collision braking from 31 mph and pre-collision brake aid (which aids the driver’s braking in crisis scenarios) from 43 mph—both thresholds are 12 mph much quicker than before.