What happened
Nissan offered ProPILOT Assist as an option on the 2018 Rogue. It adds steering support to the car's adaptive cruise control and uses a front camera to keep the car centered in its lane. In a bulletin of December 2019, the Highway Loss Data Institute analyzed insurance claims for 2017-18 Rogues. Its regression controlled for the other driver assistance features and for driver, vehicle and location factors. Rogues with the system had 28% fewer personal injury protection claims, the only coverage with a statistically significant drop. Bodily injury liability claims were 43% lower and property damage liability claims 12% lower, without statistical significance. HLDI concluded from this early evidence that the system was preventing crashes. It added that more research was needed to understand the mechanism. In July 2024, IIHS reported that a 2021 HLDI study of 2017-19 Rogues found no added benefit from the system. From police-reported crashes, IIHS's Jessica Cicchino inferred that other features of the equipped cars or their drivers explained their lower crash rates. The bulletin does not mention machine learning.
Sources
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Report, by authors with no tie to the system.
Highway Loss Data Institute. Impact of Nissan ProPILOT Assist on insurance losses. HLDI Bulletin Vol. 36, No. 29, December 2019.
Early evidence indicates that Nissan's Level 2 driving automation system, ProPILOT Assist, is preventing crashes and reducing insurance losses, but additional research is necessary to understand the mechanism through which it is reducing insurance losses.
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Press release, by authors with no tie to the system. Context or contrary evidence.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. IIHS-HLDI research finds little evidence that partial automation prevents crashes. News release, 11 July 2024.
However, there was no additional benefit associated with ACC or Nissan's ProPILOT Assist partial automation system, which adds lane centering on top of ACC.
Details
AI system
- Workflow
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A front camera detected lane markings, and the system steered to keep the car centered in its lane. The system worked with Intelligent Cruise Control, a radar-based adaptive cruise control.
Follow-up
- Conditions for replication
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The driver keeps hands on the wheel, or the system warns, brakes and then stops the car. Lane markings are detected and the windshield wipers are not running.
Entry details
- Sector
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Road vehicle crash avoidance.
- Purpose
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Nissan built ProPILOT Assist to keep the car centered in its lane while it controls speed and following distance.
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Cite this record
Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). Rogues with ProPILOT Assist draw fewer injury claims in early data (AIBD-0901). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 31 October 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-0901.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 4.0)