The Volkswagen Group in the USA has joined the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium.
There is none in the US yet Federal law in the field of autonomous driving and so there is a patchwork of different rules, depending on Federal State. formed. But the industry has in that Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC) agreed on standards and best practices for testing autonomous driving.
Volkswagen show car I.D. BUZZ. Source: VW
There Volkswagen in cooperation With ford the development of technology is underway, this consortium has now also joined. This consortium has developed test criteria that regulate, for example, the training of test drivers.
The standardization of the test methods is intended to ensure that they are comparable and are generally valid. You also want that trust strengthen in technology, also because of the deadly Uber-accident broke away.
The AVSC was founded in April 2019 by the American engineering association SAE, which also shaped the automation levels up to level 5. In addition to Volkswagen, there are also Ford, General Motors. Honda. Lyft. Mercedes Benz, Toyota and Over Member of the consortium.
Volkswagen wants to go 2022 Offer autonomous vehicles that are believed to be with everything Argo AI Software. The company was founded recently VWATto bundle the development.
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