Ground Vehicle Standards Newsletter - November 2017 - Cover1

Volume VIII, Issue 2
November 2017

GROUND
VEHICLE
STANDARDS
NEWSLETTER
Creating global, harmonized consensus-based solutions.
Moving the on- and off-road vehicle industry forward.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
CVR1 SAE Granted Special Consultative Status
with the United Nations

SAE GRANTED SPECIAL CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH
THE UNITED NATIONS

1 SAE Standard on Common Language for
Vehicle Automation Discussed
Before Congress

(Based on an article which previously
appeared in Automotive Engineering)

2 SAE Works with ISO to Revise J3016

On July 25, after a nearly 18-month process
to gain Special Consultative Status with the
United Nations (UN) as a Non-Governmental
Organization (NGO), SAE International was
formally granted the status by the UN's
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) NGO
Committee's 19 member states during its
Coordination and Management meeting.

3 2017 SAE Battelle CyberAuto Challenge a
Success
4 New Working Group to Develop Automatic
Transmission Fluid Performance Standard
5 Testing Program to Validate J2954
Underway
5 Mike Steele Receives DOE Award
7 New Surrogate Measures of Safety
Committee Established
7 Shared and Digital Mobility Committee
Established
8 New Committees, New Committee Chairs
10 Volunteer recognition: document sponsors
CVR4 Global Ground Vehicle Standards
Committees & Staff Contacts
Published by SAE International
Editorial Director: Jack Pokrzywa

Being granted Special Consultative Status
Bill Gouse
enables SAE's active participation in the
forums in the ECOSOC-one of the four
divisions of the UN. The designation will allow SAE to present papers and data
for consideration and discussion and allow SAE to attend any meeting the
ECOSOC holds.
SAE applied for this status with the UN in order to participate in a variety of work
programs in the surface, air and multimodal transport, environmental and energy
issues, as well as those related to cybersecurity and accessibility for the disabled.
Bill Gouse, SAE's Director, Federal Program Development, has been working
since early 2016 on the application process to achieve Special Consultative
Status. While anyone can attend a UN meeting, or watch it on UN WEB TV,
Gouse said, "without this status, we may only sit in the gallery and listen."
With its new Special Consultative Status, SAE's participation with the UN
Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Sustainable Transport Division will
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