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150-Not Another Standard Standards Workshop 

Date and Time: Monday, July 10, 2023: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Plaza B

Session Moderators and Organizers

MODERATORS
Kevin Gay, Director, Head of AV Safety, Uber, Autonomous Mobility & Delivery
Scott Schnelle, Safety Best Practices Specialist, Waymo

ORGANIZERS
Kevin Gay, Uber
Scott Schnelle, Safety Best Practices Specialist, Waymo

TRB Sponsoring Committees and Partners

Session Description and Agenda

DESCRIPTION

Over the past few years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of AV safety standards that are being developed across SAE, IEEE, ISO, AVSC, UL, etc. This session will focus on making sense of the complex landscape of standardization activities through the recognition of common themes and the discussion of overarching topics that still need addressing. The goal is to critically evaluate the ongoing efforts towards harmonization, where needed, and gaps identification. Rather than simply listing underway activities, SDO stakeholders and AV industry participants will be able to present their contribution and thinking related to themes and research questions that the group will interactively collaborate to abstract.

AGENDA

Introduction & Session Overview

Presentations: Common Standard Frameworks
Quick presentations that walk through the various AV safety frameworks or organizational structures being used to make sense of the standards landscape. This will help serve as a setup for the structure activity and team trivia. Speakers include:
Shawn Kimmel - Overview of SAE SharpCloud Tool
Nick Fleming - BSI AV Standards Roadmap
Scott Schnelle - Abstracted Standards Themes

Structured Activity: Discussion of the Common Standards Frameworks
Participants will be asked to either agree or disagree with the proposed abstracted themes.
- What are there common and unique elements from across each of the standard frameworks?
- What are there key elements missing from across all the frameworks?
- Practically how are these maintained to ensure they are up-to-date and include relevant information?
- Are these frameworks a useful tool for public acceptance of AVs?
- What other improvements could be made for these standards or frameworks?


Panel Session: Perspectives on AV Standards Landscape Across Value Chain and Associated implementation
Panel discussion that addresses the role of participation in SDO activities in their organization and its necessity for wide-scale deployment. Practical implementation of existing standards is emphasized to evaluate the feasibility of their implementation in the value chain.

Speakers include:
Joel Sanchez, Aurora
Amitai Bin-nun, Motional
Chris Becker, Zoox

Break

Presentations: Current & Planned Activities
Quick presentations that will discuss standards developmental activities that are currently under development and activities that are planned to kick-off shortly. Speakers include:
Chris Bartholomew - SAE ORAD and ISO liaisons
Ed Straub - AVSC
Simon Fürst - DIN, VDA, ISO
Kevin Gay - IEEE AV Decision Making WG

Structured Activity: Open Research Questions
Participants will be asked to discuss key open research questions with a goal of identifying key topics that potentially are not addressed by current or planned activities.
- Follow-up questions from the audience on the current & planned SDO activities
- Are there standards that need to be developed (or updated) to enable widespread commercialization of AV technology?
- Is it necessary to have joint standards development across multiple SDOs, for example J3016, ODD standards (J3257/BSI PAS/AVSC)?
- What other coordinated approaches could we use to reduce redundancy and waste of resources to further accelerate timelines and coverage of key areas?
- Are there approaches that AV standards organizations should consider to help address public acceptance of AVs?


Break

Structured Activity: AV Standards Team Trivia Game
Session organizers will lead a game of team trivia with the questions focused on AV standards and key questions will be pulled from the presentations of each of the attendees. Prizes for winning teams!

Close Out: Summary of Session Findings:
Key findings from the entirety of the breakout session will be summarized by all participants. Key themes discussed during the session will be captured (in SAE SharpCloud or other electronic tools) to ensure longevity of session outputs.

Session Objectives

Overarching goal is to elicit collaboration from panel speakers and audience feedback throughout the session on a variety of topics.
Identify AV safety standards that provide significant value to the industry in development and deployment of AVs, including which ones are being considered in AV regulations such as the EU ADS Type Approval guidelines, NHTSA’s AV Pilot Program, etc.
Identify common themes across AV standards under development and highlight the functional areas those standards address
Evaluate potential discrepancies from common themes in existing standards and encourage discussion by SDO stakeholders towards resolution. Evaluate (if any) limitations of existing automotive standards
For example: what really makes it hard to apply 26262 to L4 thinking? What are the things that we should work to solve in upcoming revisions?
Formulate the big questions that remain unanswered across the landscape of AV standards to inform a set of recommendations for SDOs to consider for future development