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Standards/Testing

factors must be put to a higher, broader purpose. “Safety
AAA plans to publish and promote an ODD for its is always about engineering rigor,” he said. Sometimes
GoMentum AV test facility that is envisioned to
serve as a proxy for an industry-wide ODD. that means making sure that “perfect is not the enemy
of the good,” as the 18th-century Italian aphorism states.
For Aptiv and other leading AV companies, it’s
a balancing act. There’s a strong impulse to get self-
driving vehicles on the road, earning revenue and
delivering on the promise for greater safety. “What that
means in practice is that we are going to deploy our
GoMentum technology initially in easier driving environments,”
said Aptiv’s Iagnemma. “And over time, we will deploy
in increasingly complex locations.”
One ODD at a time Koopman said that the UL 4600 standard, still in
Flexibility will be crucial. Industry players follow a development, explicitly allows AV makers not to be
wide array of business cases, from long-haul trucking perfect. “You need good empirical test data to say that
on highways to low-speed deliveries in the suburbs. The you’re not presenting an undue risk,” he said. “But you
ODDs also need to be agnostic to technology, ignoring can’t stop conditions from changing.” In other words,
which sensors a company uses to achieve safety-per- you’ll never develop an ODD that takes every scenario,
formance benchmarks. The quest for equal footing use case and road condition into consideration; AVs
becomes still more challenging given the diverse set of need to know what they don’t know – and then respond
stakeholders all trying to establish standards. with a fix as fast as possible after an incident. ■
“Our next step is to call out to the whole industry,”
said Bruso. “How can we come together?” This article was sponsored by AAA Northern California,
Koopman believes the mile-long list of ODD Utah & Nevada.

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