Abstract
Establishment of driving automation systems is one of the greatest issues all over the world. Quality management engineers may contribute to attain high quality, reliability, and safety of driving automation systems. In addition, the world wide activities to enhance the quality and safety of driving automation systems may be also useful for further improving quality and safety of other products and services. This article tries to clarify how the knowledge transfer could be done from the automobile industry to other fields. First, we describe the characteristics of car driving. The role and responsibility of a driver is very strong for ordinal vehicles. Automation of driving would change the notion of “driver,” and the laws and other social frameworks would be changed accordingly. Such experience of the social movement would provide many insights for other domains where artificial intelligence may be applied. Such big social change will raise many issues/problems to be addressed for further increase of quality and safety.
