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Editorial
Making Safety Standard
I'm not sure who claims to have coined
the often-repeated phrase, " Safety
comes standard. " But that tagline came
to mind as authorities in Texas and officials with the National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB) were, at the
time of this writing, sorting out what
happened in the crash of a Tesla Model
S near Houston on April 17. The car's two
occupants were killed - and it's believed
neither of them happened to be behind
the wheel at the time of impact.
Suspicion immediately centered
on Tesla and its misleadingly named
Autopilot driver-assist system. And
it seems Tesla crashes - in which
Autopilot was or may have been
in operation - have increased in a
frequency broadly correlating with the
brand's expanding sales volumes.
The day I wrote this column, it
was reported Tesla CEO Elon Musk said
data recovered from the Texas crash
indicated the car's Autopilot was not
engaged. There's a lot more investigation to come, but the incident spurred
me to revisit a conversation I'd had just
a couple of weeks earlier with Amy
Chu, director of the Automated Vehicle
Safety Consortium (AVSC), a program of
SAE's Industry Technologies Consortia.
The AVSC was established in early
2019 to inform and help lead to industrywide standards for advancing automated
driving systems. The member companies
of AVSC, says the consortium, " have long
been focused on the development of safe,
reliable and high-quality vehicles and are
committed to applying these same principles to SAE Level 4 and Level 5 automated vehicles. " The goal is to ensure the
public can be confident that AVs will be
deployed safely.
Helping to instill confidence and
trust that highly-automated vehicles are
safe, Chu told me, is the consortium's

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overarching mission. " We focus on Level
4 and Level 5, the SAE levels that are all
fully automated, " she said.
The AVSC's seven members -
Aurora, Ford, Honda, Lyft, Motional,
Toyota and Volkswagen Group of
America - engage the industry largely
through the creation of Best Practices.
And its latest, issued in March, seems
particularly timely: Metrics and Methods
for Assessing Safety Performance of
Automated Driving Systems. Chu said
that AVSC now is on a pace to release
a new Best Practice approximately once
per quarter - and is working to identify
" gaps " in the AV development environment that should be addressed. " But
when we're exploring these topics and
we're deciding on them, " she said, " we're
never saying we've got something new
that no one's talked about. In fact, it's
mostly going to complement what is
going on with the rest of industry and
leverage the good work of others. "
There's no lack of ideas for new
Best Practices - " sometimes too
many, " she laughs. But she maintains
the intent to keep AVSC membership
purposefully small is a big boost to
getting things done. And beyond Best
Practices, the AVSC's work, and often
the learning of its individual members,
extends into SAE Standards committees and others responsible for creation
of critical industrywide standards.
The AVSC's mission to foster practices and standards that advance safe
testing and deployment of AV technology may never be more important.
Whether or not the Texas accident
happened because of fatally misplaced
confidence in Autopilot, the potential
impact on the public's trust of driving
automation isn't just Tesla's problem -
it's the industry's problem.
Bill Visnic, Editorial Director

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