Truck & Off-Highway Engineering – June 2019

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Consortium. The AVSC also was announced at the

Government/Industry Meeting. It was founded by Ford,

General Motors and Toyota in collaboration with SAE

International to quickly establish safety principles, common

terminology, and best safety practices for automated driving.

Highway Pilot, shown here in a Freightliner prototype truck, consists of

assistance and connectivity systems that enable automated driving on

the highway.

TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS

just awareness from one committee to the other. It’s also co-

ordinating the functions and making sure we are leveraging

the right people, toward the right end that’s better for indus-

try and better for SAE,” Straub explained.

The initial goals for the Office of Automation are to mini-

mize any duplication of effort and to leverage SAE’s position

as a neutral convener, to help increase public awareness about

what AVs are. “Also, from the education side, a goal is to pre-

pare the workforce and the next generation of engineers for

what’s coming,” Straub said.

While the office’s current focus is light-duty vehicles, incorpo-

rating work with the commercial heavy-duty trucking industry

may come since similarities between the two spaces exist. Straub

noted that the office is maintaining awareness of what the com-

mercial trucking industry is doing and the challenges it faces.

It really comes down to application. “A lot of the technol-

ogy will be similar if not the same—as well as the testing and

the validation processes would be similar,” he told Truck &

Off-Highway Engineering. “It’s about integrating the technol-

ogy onto vehicles and accounting for the different size and

weight and form factor, etc, and then what those potential

commercial applications are.”

Straub’s first milestone as director was to work with the

SAE ITC to establish the Automated Vehicle Safety