ADAS Amending the Automated-driving 'Constitution' SAE International's J3016 standard has been comprehensively revised with new distinctions and definitions. The Committee chairperson, Barbara Wendling, addresses the fine points behind the industry-defining - and perpetually controversial - classification for automated-driving capability. In May, SAE International and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) jointly released a significant update to SAE's J3016 Recommended Practice: Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to Driving Automation Systems for On-Road Motor Vehicles, commonly referenced as the SAE Levels of Driving Automation. Chief among the revisions to the J3016 Standard was language further clarifying the distinction between SAE Level 3 and Level 4 automation, terms to address and define remote-support functionality and other new definitions and descriptions for driving-automation operability. This latest version of the J3016 Standard can be downloaded free of charge at: https://www.sae.org/ standards/content/j3016_202104/ SAE Mobility Media editor-in-chief Lindsay Brooke and editorial director Bill Visnic spoke with Barbara Wendling, chairperson SAE J3016 Technical Standards Committee and a senior researcher at Quantitative Scientific Solutions, about the critical points of the Standard's latest revisions and how they impact the autonomous-vehicle (AV) engineering community and the industry at large. This update of J3016 was a collaboration between SAE and ISO. What prompted the two standards organizations to collaborate on this? Three or four years ago, SAE and ISO reestablished a desire to put out joint standards. The first one they did Barbara Wendling is chairperson of the J3016 Standard committee. AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ENGINEERING July 2021 17 Barbara Wendlinghttps://www.sae.org/standards/content/j3016_202104/