SAE Update - May 2022 - 19

STANDARDS
& COMMITTEES
International have been working for years with a host
of industry partners and other standards
organizations to alleviate such scenarios. This is a not
an easy task, with technology advancing so quickly
there are often not common terms to describe it.
One of the first productive steps along those lines
was the 2014 publishing of SAE's J3016
Recommended Practice, a " Taxonomy and
Definitions for Terms Related to Driving Automation
Systems for On-Road Motor Vehicles. " This evolving
document has helped define the vocabulary around
which the industry is rapidly expanding, its most
recent and already fourth revision in April 2021
helping harmonize terms globally with ISO's 22736.
Such cooperation among the world's standards
organizations speaks volumes to the importance of
having a common tongue, as was the document's
availability. " I would give quite a bit of credit to SAE
as an organization for making that document freely
available as an SAE standards document. That is
extremely rare, " explained George Nicols, an
advanced technology standards engineer at Toyota
Motor North America, who has been involved with
SAE J3016 since 2017. " I think that speaks to just how
valuable and significant the document is for
distribution through the public. "
Media inflection point
The kerfuffle around the New York Times article was
likely the first of many misguided descriptions
around the language of autonomy, but could be seen
more hopefully as an inflection point for the industry
on which to build. Describing any SAE Level 2 system
as " self-driving " could inspire dire consequence, but
few automotive technologies are initially understood
by the driving public (see " ABS " ).
Ed Niedermeyer, the former communications
UPDATE
George Nicols, an advanced technology
standards engineer at Toyota Motor North
America, who has been involved with SAE
J3016 since 2017, points to the challenges
communicating the shared role between
current automated vehicle features and the
drive.
director at PAVE (Partners for
Automated Vehicle Education),
was active in real-time via social
media channels during the dustup
with the New York Times.
The organization he represented
is a coalition of nearly 90
members (including SAE
International) tasked with
educating the public on
autonomous vehicle technology.
" The AV industry talks about the
need for public trust, "
Niedermeyer explained. " In
order to earn the public's trust,
we all have to be speaking the
same language, and actually
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George Nicols
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