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Safety, standards crucial to AVs' advance
The details and cost of the Biden
Administration's $1.2-trillion ($555
billion in new spending) federal infrastructure
bill may have been exhaustively
debated by the time it was
passed last November, but few could
argue that substantial investment in the
nation's systems wasn't long overdue.
I feel no shame in admitting I didn't
deeply examine its 2,700 pages (most
lawmakers didn't either), but many
have speculated on what the bill may
portend for AV development.
A particular area of interest is the
provision to " advance " drunk- and
impaired-driving prevention with some
kind of passive technology. Nobody yet
knows exactly what that technology
might be, but it's probable that any effective
design will be based on, or collaborate
with, some of today's advanced
driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and
higher-level automation development.
New federal investment funds flowing
to automakers, suppliers and other innovators
is likely to hasten engineering of
driver assistance and automation on
many fronts - impaired-driving prevention
is just going to be one of the more
high-profile efforts.
There's also funding in the new bill
for SMART - Strengthening Mobility
and Revolutionizing Transportation. It's
a five-year, $100-million grant-formatted
program for " use of automated transportation
and autonomous vehicles. " There's
also some money for other AV-related
research, but not much talk about any
new regulatory actions.
I reckon that's okay for now, because
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the AV " industry " seems to be settling
into a controlled consolidation. Like much
of what causes controversy in the transportation
sector - particularly when it
comes to private autos and commercial
carriers - issues that caused initial angst
are being diligently addressed. I'm particularly
encouraged by the steady progress
of a handful of dedicated and prudent
developers who maybe aren't quite on
the ambitious timelines they once set for
themselves, but are progressing toward
SAE Levels 4 and 5 automation.
To me, two pieces in this issue
of AVE prove the concept that steady
engineering practices are paying
off. Senior editor Paul Seredynski's
coverage of Horiba's new simulator
that marries the virtual and real worlds
(p. 22) brings into focus how a standardized
testing regimen for AVs (and
ADAS) can fulfill manifold development
quandaries. Consider this statement
from Leo Breton, Horiba's technology
development director, that seems to
summarize both the " big " and the
" little " pictures: " Any given sensor may
not even be available in two or three
years, so we can't be developing just
based on the specific sensor. We have
to develop methods and technologies
that go beyond a specific sensor. In the
future, maybe everyone will settle out
on one or two systems once things are
fully evolved 10 to 15 years from now.
But right now, things are evolving very
quickly. We have to keep that in mind
and not make our solutions dependent
upon specific models of sensors. "
Meanwhile, expert columnist Sam
Abuelsamid's overview of the potential
for imaging radar (p. 4) reminds me
that, at any time, a new technology may
deliver the radical leap in capability or
cost-reduction that makes what was
impossible yesterday markedly more
viable today. Timelines remain as sketchy
as ever, but these pieces suggest that
engineers are turning a corner on AV
development, collectively more confident
in saying, " Yeah, we got this. "
Bill Visnic, Editorial Director
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