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Cover Story
Making the Strategic
Move Into AV Testing
by Lindsay Brooke
Having built its global engineering reputation in the
combustion-engine era, FEV makes a critical leap into
automated-vehicle testing.
Traditional powertrain testing can be full of challenges.
But it doesn't compare to the often-bizarre edge
cases that confront those testing automated-vehicle
systems. Just ask Tom Tasky. He cut his engineering
teeth in the powertrain-test space before transitioning
into his current role as director, Intelligent Mobility, at
FEV North America.
" Tackling the edge cases in ADAS and AV development
is sometimes overwhelming, " Tasky told
SAE's Autonomous Vehicle Engineering. " Lots of crazy
scenarios that you could never envision. To cite just
one example, our guys were road-testing an ADAS
system in Europe when they noticed, in the distance,
a car parked on the side of the road. It appeared to be
stranded. Then a flatbed truck appeared, parked in
front of the car. The truck, possibly a recovery vehicle,
was covering the lane line. "
The truck had reflective white stripes painted on
the back of its cab. And it was those white stripes that
the fast-approaching FEV test car's sensor array locked
on to, " thinking " it was a new lane. An impending collision
was averted by the quick-reacting FEV engineers,
Lasky noted. " It was just another point of learning for
them and for our algorithms, " he said.
More than 40 years after its founding, the FEV
Group continues to expand its engineering-services
portfolio beyond its traditional powertrain
focus, to keep pace with the industry's shifts into
An autonomous shuttle developed by FEV and under test in Europe.
electrification, alternative fuels and connectivity.
Most recently, the company turned its attention
to automated-driving systems. " Over the past two
years, we've had an increasing amount of customer
activity in the ADAS, AV, and data-collection space, "
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