Lisa Herman Lisa Herman

I Can See Clearly Now that SAE J3016 is Gone: Will Mobileye’s New Simplified Consumer AV Taxonomy Supplant SAE J3016?

The past year has proven to be quite tumultuous for the autonomous driving industry. Shortening runways and pivots to more commercially viable ADAS seem to have become the norm. Notwithstanding, leaders at Mobileye recently laid out a path for its pursuit of consumer-level autonomy, which they believe is attainable in the near future. This new approach, which was presented at CES 2023, centers around a different way of talking and thinking about consumer AVs, which unlike the engineer-driven SAE J3016, focuses on simplified consumer-facing automation taxonomy. By laying out a new consumer-oriented classification system, Mobileye hopes to bring more attention to the real benefits of autonomy in terms of safety, convenience and efficiency.

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Kimberly Gross Kimberly Gross

Thoughts from the Driver’s Seat with Mike Nelson

What’s Going On With FSD Beta?

To say Full Self-Driving Beta “has been in the news” would be a vast understatement. Tesla’s imprecisely-named driver assistance technology—as the website cautions, “currently enabled Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous”—has always received media attention, but between consumer class actions, legislative activity, Super Bowl commercials calling for regulators to ban it, and now a full-scale recall, FSD has received more than its usual coverage of late. Today, Mike Nelson tries to break it all down, from the driver’s seat of (what else?) his Tesla Model Y.

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