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Last month, we were part of AutoSens Detroit at the M1 Concourse, a conference dedicated to vehicle perception technology and autonomous driving. It’s one of the best resources on automated vehicles from a design, technology, legal, and consumer standpoint. Through AutoSens, it’s easy to network with any number of figures in the world of autonomous driving, all of whom are trying to bring this promising world to light.
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While attending the events at the M1 Concourse, we were intrigued during Tim Dawkins’ presentation about the importance of autonomous vehicle testing and how the parameters for those tests need to be defined. Dawkins, an Autonomous Car Specialist with SBD Automotive, was speaking about the company’s perspective regarding the challenges of testing a fully autonomous vehicle. “Conventional safety systems ? everything from ABS to emergency braking ? are currently validated using a structured testing program,” he explained. “There are design verification procedures where the car is subjected to a number of test cases, and if it passes those test cases, it is generally deemed good enough to go on the road.”
The tests are, as the name suggests, structured, with emphasis on one feature in a specific set of conditions. With autonomous driving, however, validation testing to that degree might not be the most ideal approach. Dawkins believes the...
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