August 201919 CMORE : SEE MORE OF FUTURE MOBILITYDIPL. ING. JOACHIM NELL, GENERAL MANAGER, CMORE AUTOMOTIVE CHINAIf a car wants to drive alone on the street, it must have a driving license. Though it seems a difficult and unimaginable matter, it is what CMORE has been doing: We design solutions that power computers for automated self-driving cars for manufacturers all around the world. To become a qualified driver, a person needs a long-term life experience. For example, one needs to understand the traffic signals, familiar with the speed of a car, and have a basic judgment of the traffic condition on the road ahead. But how to teach a computer all about this? Let me start by reflecting on my working experiences. During the past 3 decades, I almost witnessed every step of the development towards automated driving (AD) technology. It was before 2003 that I was first connected to a driver assistant system. And in 2003, I built a first prototype-car for automated driving, which was not treated seriously at that time when only limited driver assistant-systems were allowed by the industry to help the driver and not to replace him. It was with the launch of Volvo XC 60 in 2008, which was the first car with the so-called "city safety" function that changed the market's points of view. With the "city safety" function, which is an automatic emergency brake (AEB) system, Volvo XC 60 could automatically brake in the event short before an accident even the driver has not taken any action himself. It was a breakthrough that for the first time a computer can overrule a driver to make a decision. Since then, the ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistant System) has become a major topic, and the whole industry was suddenly starting to rethink about what kind of assistant systems could be created. Above all, the market expectation grew very dramatically. Then, we had a detailed definition for automated driving and the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) defined it from Level 1 to Level 5. In L1 and L2, a driver still takes control of a car and only above L3, the driver is allowed not to touch the steering wheel. Despite that, we still need the driver to take Dipl. Ing. Joachim NellCXO NSIGHTS
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