ACCELERATING
SAFETY STANDARDS
Our industry members support the rapid creation of best practices for testing and development.
Overview
Founded in 2019, the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium™ (AVSC) is an industry program of SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (SAE ITC®). We work to quickly publish best practices that will inform and lead to industry-wide standards advancing the safe deployment of Automated Driving Systems (ADS).
The members of AVSC bring decades of combined experience focused on safe, reliable, and high-quality transportation. We collaborate to establish and share ADS-related safety principles, common terminology, and industry best practices for the safe development, testing, and operation of SAE L4/L5 on-road vehicles.
Our goal: to build public trust and acceptance of automated vehicles as a safe and beneficial form of transportation.
AVSC Publication Summary
AVSC best practice documents are the result of information sharing and collaboration from industry members. They represent an agreement of the topics that are most relevant to the safe development and deployment of automated vehicles. AVSC members agree on why these topics are important and on the resulting recommendations while leaving to the individual developer how to implement these best practices within their organization.
All best practices are free to download.
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
Why is it important?
In-vehicle fallback test drivers (IFTDs) contribute to safety during testing and therefore must be thoroughly trained on the automated driving system, the intended operational design domain, and controlling the vehicle to minimize risk.
What is recommended?
- Qualifications and training for on-board human oversight of testing
- Criteria and processes for selecting and training test personnel
- Pre-work shift and post-work shift recommendations
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
Aug 2022
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
Nov 2021
Adapting a Safety Management
System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
July 2021
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Why is it important?
A description of an ADS Operational Design Domain (ODD), commonly defined terms and a framework in which to apply them are fundamental to promote consistent communication and help ensure that users’ ADS expectations are aligned with capabilities.
What is recommended?
- A conceptual framework and lexicon for describing the ODD
- A consistent list of variables with definitions for describing the ODD
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
Aug 2022
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
Nov 2021
Adapting a Safety Management
System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
July 2021
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Why is it important?
No standards or industry guidance currently address passenger control (agency) for emergency reasons completely unrelated to the ADS’s ability to perform the Dynamic Driving Task (DDT).
What is recommended?
- Recommended processes for passenger-initiated emergency
- Criteria and processes for passenger initiation of the features from inside a vehicle
- Communication with passengers, fleet operations, enhanced diagnoses of situation
- Interaction outside the vehicle with other road users, and general post-stop actions
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
Aug 2022
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
Nov 2021
Adapting a Safety Management
System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
July 2021
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Why is it important?
Addresses data collection for event analysis for lessons learned from critical driving scenarios (i.e., what an ADS “saw” and the actions it took). Efficiently and consistently identifying safety issues for deployed vehicles is important to gaining the trust and confidence of the public.
What is recommended?
- Common data collection practices for the purpose of event analysis and producing lessons learned.
- Clarifies areas specific to ADS-DVs.
- Definition of data elements, considerations for data prioritization, retrievability, survivability, storage, and traceability.
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
Aug 2022
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
Nov 2021
Adapting a Safety Management
System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
July 2021
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Why is it important?
Information for ADS developers on first responder awareness, understanding, standardized approach, and training for interacting with automated vehicles.
What is recommended?
- Defines common first responder roles, interactions, and use cases.
- Recommended protocols for ADS developers and manufacturers to use when interacting with first responders across multiple use cases.
- Provides a framework to promote consistency for ADS developers and manufacturers in creating, distributing, and maintaining a first responder interaction plan
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
Aug 2022
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
Nov 2021
Adapting a Safety Management
System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
July 2021
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
Why is it important?
Credible, practicable, and consistent ways to measure ADS performance are essential to garner public trust and confidence. Several ways have been put forward, but not widely adopted. Measuring safety outcomes is a complex task; requiring considerable time and exposure to achieve statistical significance.
What is recommended?
- Foundational set of metrics to assess safety performance of the dynamic driving task.
- Recommends measuring safety outcomes (crashes and compliance with traffic regulations) and predictive metrics: maintaining a safety envelope, exhibit contextually safe vehicle motion control, and object and event detection and response (OEDR).
- Methods for assessing dynamic driving task (DDT) focused on aggregate results of several metrics
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
Aug 2022
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
Nov 2021
Adapting a Safety Management
System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
July 2021
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
Adapting a Safety Management System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
Nov 2021
Why is it important?
There is value in assessing a set of behavioral competencies as directional indication of safety performance. Elemental behaviors can be used as starting point for additional assessment.
What is recommended?
- Clarity on lexicon and relationship between maneuvers, object and event detection and response (OEDR), and behaviors.
- Glimpse into how AVSC members are using behavioral competencies within their organizations as part of a safety assurance framework.
- Elemental behavioral competency list can be used and customized by developers to demonstrate safety performance in whatever context they choose.
- Example of a repeatable method to tie in previous work of AVSC (ODD, Metrics) to develop application-specific metrics, using “Maintaining a Lane” to illustrate.
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
Aug 2022
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
Nov 2021
Adapting a Safety Management
System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
July 2021
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
July 2021
Why is it important?
Managing the operational safety risks during testing is an important aspect of SAE Level 4 and 5 ADS development. A Safety Management System (SMS) is one approach designed to support organizational safety in a systematic and integrated way.
What is recommended?
- Information Report shares information on a Safety Management System (SMS) framework considering ADS testing and evaluation.
- Create awareness of sound and effective approaches. Leverage approaches and/or frameworks used by other industries.
- Promote a safety culture, a system to assess and manage safety risk, evaluate risk control strategy effectiveness, and support organizational safety policies and objectives.
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
Aug 2022
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
Nov 2021
Adapting a Safety Management
System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
July 2021
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRU)
Aug 2022
Why is it important?
VRUs pose challenges for the safe operation of ADS-DVs. Pedestrians, cyclists, micromobility users, and other VRUs take on different forms, movements, and behaviors. It is critical that developers rigorously test for safe operation when sharing the road with other types of road users.
What is recommended?
- It outlines types of VRUs and the challenges associated with detecting and classifying them.
- This document also provides context for building behavioral competencies around safely responding to VRUs and applying metrics to evaluate those behavioral competencies.
- Finally, communication and properly calibrated expectations on the part of both ADS and VRUs will help ensure safe interactions.
Interactions Between ADS-DVs and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs)
Aug 2022
Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
Nov 2021
Adapting a Safety Management
System (SMS) for ADS Testing and Evaluation
July 2021
Metrics and Methods for Assessing Safety Performance
Mar 2021
First Responder Interactions
Dec 2020
Data Collection
Sept 2020
Passenger Initiated Emergency Trip Interruption
June 2020
Operating Design Domain
April 2020
Fallback Test Driver Training
Nov 2019
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