New Standards Initiatives on Automated Vehicles [Standards]

An automated vehicle is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving safely with minimum or no input from human beings. Recent literature, industry projects, and prototypes have revealed its potential to improve transportation efficiency due to better synchronization of vehicle movements and to improve safety by potentially reducing the number of accidents, injuries, and fatalities on the road while enabling new emerging applications. Even though there are rigorous and well-defined levels of automation [1], there are different interpretations and understandings on the state-of-the-art technologies of automated vehicles that may send a mixed and potentially confusing message to end users.