5) Safety Assurance

Abstract

As automated vehicles are expected to be put into practical use and be deployed in order to realize a safer, more efficient, and freer mobility society, there is an urgent need to develop safety assurance standards that ask what kind of concepts should be employed to make safety judgments that are acceptable to the public, as well as safety assurance methods that seek to comprehensively assure safety in diverse traffic situations. In Japan, DIVP^Ⓡ,(1) which is supported by the Cabinet Office in its efforts to build a safety assurance virtual environment, and SAKURA,⁽²⁾ which is supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in its efforts to build a safety assurance scenario database, have launched, and the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc. (JAMA), while presenting a technical strategy across these projects, is collaborating with industry, government, and academia to build safety assurance foundational technologies to support safety assurance standards and methods. Many research projects on safety assurance have been launched in various countries, and it is important to establish and operate a cooperative system that provides a lever for establishing international standards and criteria and common foundational technologies through close cooperation among such projects, both domestic and international.