by Juan R. Pimentel
Safety has been ranked as the
number one concern for the acceptance and adoption of automated vehicles
since safety has driven some of the most complex requirements in the
development of self-driving vehicles. Recent fatal accidents involving
self-driving vehicles have uncovered issues in the way some automated
vehicle companies approach the design, testing, verification, and
validation of their products.
Traditionally, automotive safety
follows functional safety concepts as detailed in the standard ISO
26262. However, automated driving safety goes beyond this standard and
includes other safety concepts such as safety of the intended
functionality (SOTIF) and multi-agent safety.
Safety of the Intended Functionalitiy (SOTIF) addresses
the concept of safety for self-driving vehicles through the inclusion
of 10 recent and highly relevent SAE technical papers. Topics that these
papers feature include functional safety, SOTIF, and multi-agent
safety.
As the third title in a series on automated vehicle
safety, each will contain introductory content by the Editor with 10 SAE
technical papers specifically chosen to illuminate the specific safety
topic of that book.
