Realities of traffic make automated driving a challenge FOCUS: AUTOMATED VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY The sensor stack for Sony's VISION-S employs about 40 sensors. solve them. We need more time, we need more resources, we need more rounds of billion-dollar financing.' So we'll just have to wait and see how that plays out. Which aspect of automated vehicles do you believe is least sufficiently being investigated/ developed? From my viewpoint, it's the cooperative aspect. How do vehicles cooperate with one another? We really have to look at how to get beyond just making vehicles automated. What we need to look at is not how to make a particular vehicle as smart as possible; what we need to do is make traffic as smart as possible. And this is where the cooperative part comes in. I'm talking about V2V communication and related considerations. That's the topic of one of my SAE International EDGE Research Reports, Unsettled Issues Regarding Communication of Automated Vehicles with Other Road Users. n UPDATE Dr. Beiker has written four additional SAE International EDGE Research Reports: Unsettled Issues in Balancing Virtual, Closed-Course, and Public-Road Testing of Automated Driving Systems Unsettled Issues Regarding Visual Communication Between Automated Vehicles and Other Road Users Unsettled Issues in Determining Appropriate Modeling Fidelity for Automated Driving Systems Simulation Unsettled Topics Concerning Sensors for Automated Road Vehicles October 2021 15 Sonyhttps://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2019011/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2019011/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2019011/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2021016/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2021016/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2021016/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2019007/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2019007/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2019007/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2019007/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2020023/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2018001/?PC=DL2BUY https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2020023/ https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2018001/?PC=DL2BUY https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2020023/