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.
Characterizing the Safety of Automated Vehicles 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 first 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.
Introduction
Chapter 1 : The Development of Safety Cases for an Autonomous Vehicle : A Comparative Study on Different Methods
Chapter 2 : A Means of Assessing the Entire Functional Safety Hazard Space
Chapter 3 : A Model-Driven Approach for Dependent Failure Analysis in Consideration of Multicore Processors Using Modified EAST-ADL
Chapter 4 : An Analysis of ISO 26262 : Machine Learning and Safety in Automotive Software
Chapter 5 : Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment beyond ISO 26262 : Management of Complexity via Restructuring of Risk-Generating Process
Chapter 6 : The Science of Testing : An Automotive Perspective
Chapter 7 : Theory of Collision Avoidance Capability in Automated Driving Technologies
Chapter 8 : A Lane-Changing Decision-Making Method for Intelligent Vehicle Based on Acceleration Field
Chapter 9 : Entropy in Reaction Space - Upgrade of Time-to-Collision Quantity
Chapter 10 : A Maneuver-Based Threat Assessment Strategy for Collision Avoidance
Index
