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IEEE to Define a Formal Model for Safe Automated Vehicle Decision-Making
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[{"type":"text","content":" SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nIntel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC):\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191219005720/en/Jack Weast, senior principal engineer at Intel and vice president of Automated Vehicle Standards at Mobileye, speaks Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, at the 2019 Mobileye Investor Summit. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)\n\nWhat’s New: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved a proposal to develop a standard for safety considerations in automated vehicle (AV) decision-making and named Intel Senior Principal Engineer Jack Weast to lead the workgroup. Participation in the workgroup is open to companies across the AV industry, and Weast hopes for broad industry representation. Group members will hold their first meeting in 2020’s first quarter.\n\n\n“The forthcoming IEEE standard will provide a useful tool to answer the question of what it means for an AV to drive safely.”\n– Jack Weast, Intel senior principal engineer\n\n\nWhy It Matters: Industry and regulators are struggling to agree on a method for evaluating the safety of AVs, although most people agree that standards are needed to establish regulatory thresholds for granting AVs their driver’s licenses. Multiple approaches are in development even though industry consensus is lacking.\n\n\nMeanwhile, technology development is not standing still and is nearly ready. This puts pressure on regulators to create rules for operating AVs worldwide. Known for its technical depth and relative speed at standards development, IEEE expects to publish the first version of the standard within a year – an important consideration as calls for regulation increase.\n\n\n“This standardization project will provide an important basis for the development of open, formal models in automated vehicle decision-making,” said Riccardo Mariani, vice president of Standards Activities at IEEE Computer Society and vice president of Industry Safety at NVIDIA. “Redundancy and diversity are crucial to developing scalable frameworks for safe automated driving.”\n\n\nHow It Works: The new standard – IEEE 2846 – will establish a formal rules-based mathematical model for automated vehicle decision-making that will be formally verifiable (with math), technology neutral (meaning anybody c...