AUTONOMOUS DRIVING: AN OUTLOOK Azra Habibović Senior Researcher azra.habibovic@viktoria.se
Autonomous Transport Solutions DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS City Highway Dedicated private areas DIFFERENT APPROACHES Evolutionary Revolutionary iqmatic
BIG PLANS BY OEMs Tesla: Online updates of automated highway driving & parking for existing models. Toyota: Automated highway driving, to be commercialized in 2020. Volvo Cars: Automated highway driving in Sweden, China, and the UK. Ford: No steering wheel for taxi services by 2021. Start selling cars to ordinary customers by 2025. Audi: Start selling cars able to communicate with traffic lights by 2017.
BIG PLANS BY OEMs European Truck Platooning Challenge: Six manufacturers, across boarders. Volvo Trucks: Testing autonomous trucks in an underground mine in Sweden OTTO: A new player on the market. Uber for goods?
AFTERMARKET SOLUTIONS Platooning in the US by the start- up company Peloton The second truck is fully automated. Automated highway driving by the start- up comma.ai Focus on off- the- shelf hardware Advanced $999 + $24 by the end of 2016
TAXI SERVICES Autonomous taxi service trial in Singapore by the start- up company nutonomy Limited number of vehicles Limited area Driver behind the wheel New partnership with Grab Autonomous taxi service in PiEsburgh by Uber Limited number of vehicles Will extend to 100 vehicles by the end of 2016 New partnership with Volvo Cars
MAPS Maps for different purposes: Mapbox: Maps with accuracy enabling tight lane changes Dynamic Map Planning Co: 3D maps of Japanese roads with 10 cm accuracy Here: HD Live Map Uber: Maps for automated taxi services Civil Maps: Augmented reality maps
EXTERNAL INTERFACES Mercedes: Special lights and projecting a zebra crossing Nissan: Special lights and textual messages Drive.ai: Textual messages on the roof AVIP: Dynamic light signal in windshield. A Swedish initiative.
RECENT PARTNERSHIPS nutonomy & Grab: Self- driving taxi services Uber & Volvo Cars: Self- driving taxi services Uber & OTTO: Uber for goods? Volvo Cars & Autoliv: Software for driver assistance and automated driving systems Yandex, Kamaz, Daimler & NAMI: Self- driving small buses GM & Cruise Automation: Aftermarket solutions for passenger cars Ford, Volvo Cars, Google, Uber & Lyft: Self- Driving Coalition for Safer Streets Google & Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: 100 mini- vans Baidu & BMW: Automated vehicles and services Volvo Cars & Microsoft: Holographic interaction Scania & Ericsson: Future deployments of 5G networks Uber & University of Arizona: Focus on optics systems Toyota, Stanford, MIT & Uni. of Michigan: Focus on social interactions and AI. Ko- HAF: 16 German organizations focusing on highly automated driving at higher speeds. Audi, BMW, & Daimler AG: New owners of Nokia Here Jaguar Land Rover & EPSRC: A program supporting 5 projects with several universities and research institutes.
PUSH FROM THE SOCIETY Gothenburg Dubai Beverly Hills Babcock Ranch Singapore
PUSH FROM AUTHORITIES Federal Automated Vehicles Policy: 15 Point Safety Assessment for safe design, development, testing and deployment of automated vehicles. DATA SHARING PRIVACY ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS VALIDATION SYSTEM SAFETY FALLBACK LAWS AND PRACTICES DIGITAL SECURITY OPERATIONAL DESIGN HUMAN- MACHINE INTERFACE CRASHWORTHINESS DETECTION AND RESPONSE CONSUMER EDUCATION CERTIFICATION POST- CRASH BEHAVIOR
CONCLUSIONS It is going fast! Worldwide interest from public & private sector Start- ups are becoming key players More unexpected partnerships to expect Shared automated transportation (bus, car pool): an increasing trend. Many benefits are expected but no one knows how it will be exactly! Demonstrations are important and more players are carrying out tests on public roads.
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