{"id":1152,"date":"2017-10-30T09:12:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T09:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparecarinsurance.co.za\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2018-07-31T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T09:20:33","slug":"intel-wants-prove-self-driving-cars-will-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparecarinsurance.co.za\/intel-wants-prove-self-driving-cars-will-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel wants to prove self-driving cars will be safe"},"content":{"rendered":"
The past year has seen a major interest in self-driving cars. News websites are littered with articles on all things autonomous and it\u2019s becoming increasingly evident that self-driving cars are going to be a reality within the next 15-30 years. One of the few things holding it back, and a very important one at that, is safety.<\/p>\n
Car insurance is calculated on risk and if autonomous cars provide a substantial increase to safety, you can be sure you’ll get cheaper premiums<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Big players in the autonomous landscape, such as Alphabet (Google\u2019s parent company) and Tesla, have been hard at work trying to solve this problem. Now Intel is getting involved in the industry with its recent acquisition of Mobileye<\/a>, a company whose sole focus is around autonomous vehicles. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich had the following to say about their acquisition of Mobileye:<\/p>\n
“With Mobileye, Intel emerges as a leader in creating the technology foundation that the automotive industry needs for an autonomous future. It\u2019s an exciting engineering challenge and a huge growth opportunity for Intel. Even more exciting is the potential for autonomous cars to transform industries, improve society and save millions of lives.<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Standards<\/h2>\n
The self-driving industry is still in the early stages of it\u2019s development and a set of standards hasn\u2019t been established. However, CEO of Mobileye, Amnon Shashua has proposed a software model he calls Responsibility Sensitive Safety<\/a> (RSS) in an attempt to prove self-driving cars can be safe. This model provides specific and measurable parameters for the human concept of responsibility and caution.<\/p>\n
The RSS model creates a \u201cSafe State\u201d that prevents an autonomous vehicle from being the cause of an accident, regardless of what action is taken by other vehicles. The image below shows one aspect of the proposed model.<\/p>\n