Real World Safety for Autonomous Vehicles and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

Following a good response to CAVT’s presentations last year on Real World Safety for Autonomous Vehicles and ADAS - and no doubt the sudden interest and caution following Google’s car/bus collision - invitations to present an update have been coming steadily from Europe and USA, and at least one has been accepted.

Based on ongoing research, CAVT voiced concerns last June at the 2015 Autonomous Vehicle Test & Development Symposium in Stuttgart entitled “Reality is not ideal: Autonomy and Driver Assistance challenges” and in November at the 2015 Advanced Engineering Open Conference in Birmingham UK entitled “Making sense of reality – from sensors to decisions”.

No matter how carefully systems are developed, the reality of the road/traffic/weather environment falls short of ideal for humans or electronic control.

CAVT contends that human error is a contributory cause of almost all collisions, but the primary cause in far, far fewer. Human driver research identifies modes of failure, many of which risk being replicated by sensors and control systems, even apart from component reliability.

CAVT is accumulating scenarios to assist testing the flexibility and deep-learning capacity of ADAS and autonomous systems in the real world where signs, markings, sat-nav, humans, etc. either do not exist or do not obey the rules and humans can and do usually cope.

Look for final details of the next event - Automotive Sensors and Electronics Expo 2016 Annual Conference and Exhibition, June 15 – 16, 2016, Detroit, Michigan