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 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.
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This AVSC best practice was first published in 2020 and has been revised to cast expanded role definitions, rearrangement of use cases in Section 4 based on severity of risk, recreation of Table 4 in 5.4 as a checklist and moved to Appendix B, as well as clarification of sections, examples, and terms throughout the document.
This document outlines interactions between first responders and ADS-DVs (SAE level 4 and level 5). It builds on earlier work done by the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partners (CAMP) detailing three types of interactions first responders may encounter: direct, indirect, and informational. In addition, a standardized framework with recommendations for an interaction plan is laid out for ADS developers, manufacturers, and fleet operators which may assist first responders in both emergency and non-emergency situations involving ADS-DVs.
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