Intel Leads Cross-Industry Effort for Safe Automated Vehicle Design Framework

Intel led a collaboration of 11 automotive and mobility industry players that published a framework for design, development, verification and validation of safe automated passenger vehicles (AVs). “Safety First for Automated Driving” combines expertise from global automakers, suppliers and technology providers to guide development of AVs that are “verifiably safe by design,” Intel said Tuesday. The framework is built on Intel’s responsibility sensitive safety (RSS) model, said to be a “technology-neutral” starting point for the industry to align on what it means for an AV to drive safely. “RSS formalizes human notions of commonsense driving into a set of mathematical formulas that are transparent and verifiable, providing a 'safety envelope' around an AV’s decision-making capabilities,” said the company. The paper has 12 guiding principles and “the steps necessary to realize them.”