ADAS is commonly used in journalism however.

https://www.caranddriver.com/research/a31880412/adas/

It’s been talked above for over a decade. It’s much easier to refer to ADAS rather than spell out:

Collision mitigation braking
Adaptive Cruise control
Lane Keep Assist
Blind Spot monitoring
Reverse collision avoidance

I mean the systems are so numerous now, it’s hard to keep up with all of them. Each manu assigns their own marketing names to each. When in doubt, when you see you an acronym you don’t know, use your Google fu. In this instance, it would be a search on “ADAS + cars” and you would have instantly got a result you could read on.

In all of the technical writing that I have done, it was the burden of the writer, not the reader, to define an acronym the first time it was used in a document. After the initial definition, the acronym could continue to be used.

There is no mandate to follow this practice on SIGforum, but it is an ingrained habit with me. If I write something, my goal is to make the meaning clear to the reader, rather than expect the reader to jump through hoops and search the internet to find the meaning of what I write.

Black Pepper may have experience with this: A couple of years ago I rented a Camry. Nice car. Solid and seemed well made. Until it snowed! There were sensors, either behind the grill or in some other exposed frontal area that when snow covered, caused the car to go nuts. Warning lights, chimes and some systems would shut down. It made car undrivable until I got out and knocked the snow off the front of the car. Which I had to do multiple times on the trip. Geezus! Doesnt it snow in Japan?

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Geezus! Doesnt it snow in Japan?

I spent several years stationed at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture which is at the very northern tip of the main island.

The only thing between us and the North end of North Korea was the Sea of Japan.

Did it snow? Boy, and Howdy! 60" a month Dec/Jan/Feb and most of March. Every fall, they'd put 8 or 10 foot bamboo stakes along the side of the road so the plows knew where the edge was. Many's the time I drove from the main base to "The Hill" through a snow canyon, looking at the top foot or two of those stakes.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Geezus! Doesnt it snow in Japan?

Very little in the major cities. It's primarily in the mountains in Japan.

Of course they could get it to read through the snow, by boosting the power or using a different wavelength, but then we would all be full of tumors and other ailments from that. It is a limitation of the power and wavelength that they are permitted to use on the open public roadways.

I haven't had any of these issues, but this thread has been informative and fun to read. Thanks to all who have contributed.